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
+ A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stendhal, Youth, 0 - Stendhal Writer · France
+ One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stendhal, Love, Passion, 0 - Stendhal Writer · France
+ All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stendhal, Atheism, Fear, Religion, 0 - Stendhal Writer · France
+ Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stendhal, Important, 0 - Stendhal Writer · France
+ Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch? Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stendhal, Devil, 0 - Stendhal Writer · France
+ 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
+ The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stendhal, Historian, 0 - Stendhal Writer · France
+ A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stendhal, Happiness, Wise, Yield, 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