"She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?"
"The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music."
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Source: Stendhal (1962). “Memoirs of a tourist [by] Stendhal [pseud.] Translated by Allan Seager: With illus. by Roger Barr”
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