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恋の喜びはいつも、不安の大きさに比例する。
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
Stendhal
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Where can a young, witty and beautiful girl find excitement if not in love? She mentally reviewed all the descriptions of passion she had read in Manon Lescaut and La Nouvelle Heloise. There could be no question, of course, of anything less than a grand amour; a trifling love was unworthy of the most envied heiress in the Faubourg Saint-Germain. She wanted a love that would inspire great deeds. What wouldn’t she be capable of with a king at her feet!
Stendhal, The Red and the Black (1830)
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Muy frecuentemente las lágrimas son la última sonrisa del amor.
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I enjoy reading. I really do. So I want to read more classics, for my culture.
However, I can't bring myself to read most of French classics. First off, they tend to be hard to digest. But most importantly, they're SO BORING ??
I don't mind hard to digest books ; I've read the Silmarillion and it was not an easy read. But it had an interesting story in spite of the whole pages describing family trees. And some parts of it are just so poetic to me. I haven't read a French classic novel with such poetry, except maybe Stendhal's description of cristallisation as a metaphor for new love.
Once again, I get that classics tend to be hard to read. But at least classics written in English have stories that I find interesting. Take 1984, I had so much trouble reading it (I learnt the word 'seldom' by reading it every 5 pages in the book lmao) but the setup, the atmosphere, the plot made me want to keep reading it !
One of the few French classic I've read is Therese Raquin. (Content warning : this paragraph is a spoiler to the novel Therese Raquin.) (Also trigger warning: murder and cheating). The novel is about a woman who is bored with her husband, so she starts an affair with some other dude, they kill the husband together, they get together officially, and in the end she's bored again. Help ?? How could I want to read this instead of Fahrenheit 451 ??
The only classical French authors that make me want to read them so far are Camus and De Maupassant. Not even Stendhal. Please give me more interesting authors if you have some !
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Un roman est comme un archet, la caisse du violon qui rend les sons, c'est l'âme du lecteur.
- Stendhal
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Some current reads - I have no idea why I'm reading two French classics at once but clearly I'm in the mood.
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Leave a lover with his thoughts for twenty-four hours and this is what will happen: At the salt mines of Salzburg, they throw a leafless wintry bough into one of the abandoned workings. Two or three months later they pull it out covered with a shining deposit of crystals. The smallest twig, no bigger than a tom-tit’s claw, is studded with a galaxy of scintillating diamonds. The original branch is no longer recognizable. What I have called crystallization is a mental process which draws from everything that happens new proofs of the perfection of the loved one.
Stendhal, from ‘On Love’ quoted in ‘Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay’ by Anne Carson
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恋が芽生えるには、ごく少量の希望があれば十分である。
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Julien my boy
Redraw of my old art from 2020 (which you can find if you scroll down far enough) I did improve a little even though I haven’t been drawing that much
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