"She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?"
"Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them."
10 likes
Source: Stendhal (1957). “Love”, Merlin Pr
About the author
Same author
More quotes by Stendhal
"Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it."
"One can acquire everything in solitude except character."
"Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness."
"If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us."
"Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?"