Stendhal Quote

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.


Vol. I, ch. XXVII - Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) (1830)


People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to...

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to...

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to...

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to...