Stendhal

"This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom."

"The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water."

"The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water."

"Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge."

"Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one."

"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."