Excerpt from On Love: Translated From the French, With an Introduction and NotesStendhal was beset with a horror of being artistic. Was it not he who said of an artist, whose dress was particularly elaborate: Depend upon it, a man who adorns his person will also adorn his work Stendhal was a soldier first, then a writer - Salviati1 is a soldier. Certainly it is his contempt for the type of person - even commoner, perhaps, in 1914 than in 1814 - who carries his emotions on his sleeve, which accounts for Stendhal's naive disclaimer of personal responsibility, the invention of Lisio2 and Salviati, mythical authors of this work on love - all a thin screen to hide his own obsession, which manages, none the less, to break through unmasked on almost every page.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.