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. . .It is lost and the fault is mine!" You may look for happiness in sensations of another kind. Your heart refuses to feel them. Imagination depicts for you well enough the physical situation, mounts you well enough on a fast hunter in [Pg 32]Devonshire woods.[2] But you feel quite certain that there you would find no pleasure. It is the optical illusion produced by a pistol shot.

Gaming has also its crystallisation, provoked by the use of the sum of money to be won.

The hazards of Court life, so regretted by the nobility, under the name of Legitimists, attached themselves so dearly only by the crystallisation they provoked. No courtier existed who did not dream of the rapid fortune of a Luynes or a Lauzun, no charming woman who did not see in prospect the duchy of Madame de Polignac. No rationalist government can give back that crystallisation. Nothing is so anti-imagination as the government of the United States of America. We have noticed that t. . . Read More

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At first I really loved Stendhal's essays on Love. His theory is that the pains of love are necessary in order to "crystallize" the object of one's love, which basically is a process of transcendence from the real to the ideal, a state which is necessary in real, passionate love. Furthermore, Stendh

„În Franţa e cunoscută povestea domnişoarei de Sommery, care, prinsă în flagrant delict de amantul ei, neagă faptul cu multă îndrăzneală; şi cum el protestează, îi spune: «Ah! Văd că nu mă mai iubeşti; crezi mai mult în ceea ce vezi cu ochii decît în ceea ce‑ţi spun eu»”.
Stendhal a fost preocupat to

I thought this was brilliant. The author uses the effect of crystallization to descibe the bejewelling (word?) effect of love on the person you love. He gives some really startling examples of how people can get fascinated with the feeling that loves gives them and find it difficult to dichotomize t

یک اثر کلاسیک درباره عشق. کتاب در قرن 19 ام و متاثر از تجربیات شخصی نویسنده به نگارش درآمده و از این بابت نباید توقع داشت با یک اثر دانشگاهی و روشنگرانه روبرو شویم. در واقع این کتاب، شکل تغییر یافته‌ی رمان رئالیستی ناموفق استاندل به نام عشق بوده و طبقه‌بندی صرف کتاب در جرگه آثار روانشناسی اشتباه است

Stendhal exorcised his unrequited love for a Milanese
beauty w this philosophical buffet-chaud. Does he grump
or whine? He's too civilized. He offers no practical lessons
but rather extravagant literary exercises. With his awareness
of life's absurdities and human imperfections (including his own), he p

Del amor o "De l'amour" en francés es una obra muy particular de Stendhal, según algunos una de sus obras favoritas. Lo leí debido a que le tengo en muy alto gracias a sus novelas "Rojo y Negro" y "La cartuja de Parma" que son mis favoritas y las he releído varias veces. Pero Del amor, a pesar de su

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