"True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things."

“It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.”

“Centro Stendhaliano di Milano Digital version of Stendhal's shoulder-notes on his own books.”

“The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse — as a luxury befitting a young man.”

“In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.”

“Stendhal's works: text, concordances and frequency list”

“I call "crystallization" that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.”