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Quotation from The Red and the Black by Stendhal
“a novel is a mirror which goes out on a highway. Sometimes it reflects the azure of the heavens, sometimes the mire of the pools of mud on the way”
The Red and the Black, Book II, Chapter XLIX, The Opera Bouffe, trans. Horace B. Samuel (1916)
Stendhal defends the novel's realism against charges of immorality.
Citation: "a novel is a mirror which goes out on a highway. Sometimes it reflects the azure of the heavens, sometimes the mire of the pools of mud on the way" — Stendhal, The Red and the Black, Book II, Chapter XLIX, The Opera Bouffe, trans. Horace B. Samuel (1916). (id stendhal-the-red-and-the-black-q1)
