"If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us"
- Stendhal
"God's only excuse is that he does not exist"
"For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves..."
"There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness."
"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love"
"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."
"A good book is an event in my life."
"Ah, Sir, a novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies, at another the mire of the puddles at your feet. And the man who carries this mirror i..."
"I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself."
"The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent."