I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered.
StendhalI used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
Stendhal