Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
StendhalThe man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
StendhalThe French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
Stendhal