Coba jelasin Esai dari Henri-Marie Beyle dong

De L'Amour (1822) (On Love)

Souvenirs d'Égotisme (Memoirs of an Egotist, published in 1892)

"Passion was his raison d'être, and that surely is the religion of all romantics-- exaltation through the passions... Stendhal was a product of the Napoleonic age, when the French saw themselves as world conquerors, and his attitude was such. But putting that aside one must admit that La Chartreuse is a good book in the romantic tradition... few men have conveyed passion with such intensity as he has... [examples] His description of their emotional frenzy is magnificent... Stendhal never became sentimental and soft the way Thackeray did, especially over women; in his greatest extravagance he remains hard and glittering... but Thackeray has something which Stendhal did not have: humour."