A review by awilderm23
The Red and the Black by Stendhal

2.0

‘Thinking produces suffering.’

‘Sitting as he was, at the side of a woman he loved.’

‘There is only one thing I fear and that is the moment which i will be alone after you have left.’

‘Remorse is the only pang which this sublime soul is afraid of.’

‘The idea that tyrants find most useful is the idea of god.’

‘I renounce the exercise of my reason, be my master.’

‘He was so completely overcome by love and unhappiness as to be to the point of falling at her feet and crying pity i am so overcome with unhappiness and love i fall at your feet.’

the enemy makes a false move, i will reply by coldness and virtue

benton on the eve of his death would say in his loud voice, it is singular but you cannot conjugate the verb guillotine in all its tenses. of course you can say i shall be guillitined but you don’t say i have been guillitined. why not, went on julien, if there is another life

the very minute i see you all my duties disappear, i have nothing but love for you dear, or rather the word love is too weak. i feel for you what i ought only to feel for god