What did Stendhal mean by: I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing. - Stendhal Writer · France Copy
+ Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stendhal, Fever, Love, Process, 0 - Stendhal Writer · France
+ If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stendhal, Character, Witty, 0 - Stendhal Writer · France
+ A good book is an event in my life. Feraz Zeid, March 1, 2023January 10, 2024, Stendhal, Book, Events, 0 - Stendhal Writer · France
+ I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stendhal, Advice, Mad, Pay, 0 - Stendhal Writer · France
+ This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stendhal, Age, Blessing, Boredom, 0 - Stendhal Writer · France
+ A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stendhal, Soul, Sound, Writing, 0 - Stendhal Writer · France
+ There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stendhal, Style, Vision, 0 - Stendhal Writer · France
+ The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stendhal, Doors, 0 - Stendhal Writer · France
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France