"She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?"
"This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism."
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Source: Stendhal (1952). “To the happy few: selected letters of Stendhal [pseud.]”
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