Quotes About Stendahl

Garret? -llamó Stendahl en voz baja. Garret calló-. ¿Sabe usted por qué le hago esto? Porque quemó los libros del señor Poe sin haberlos leído. Le bastó la opinión de los demás. Si hubiera leído los libros, habría adivinado lo que yo le iba a hacer, cuando bajamos hace un momento. La ignorancia es fatal, señor Garret.

How must it have felt, Pikes, the night they seized your films, like entrails yanked from the camera, out of your guts, clutching them in coils and wads to stuff them up a stove to burn away! Did it feel as bad as having some fifty thousand books annihilated with no recompense? Yes. Yes. Stendahl felt his hands grow cold with the senseless anger.

We live through myriads of second, yet it is always one, just one, that casts our entire inner world into turmoil, the second when (as Stendahl has described it) the internal inflorescence, already steeped in every kind of fluid, condenses and crystallizes - a magical second, like the moment of generation....

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love