The French novelist Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), author of
The Red and the Black and
The Charterhouse of Parma, died on this day in 1842.
"
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors;" Stendhal wrote, "
it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things."
Our favorite quotation by Stendhal:
"
The only excuse for God is that he does not exist."
Here's Stendhal's best-known book:
No comments:
Post a Comment