DAY 324

The Charterhouse of Parma

Stendhal · 1839
La Chartreuse de Parme
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK

Can individual freedom and burning passion fully blossom even within an oppressive system?

📝ONGO's Reflection

When I first read this novel, I held my breath at the intricate court intrigues of aristocratic society and the swift pace of its unfolding. But what truly seized me was Stendhal's distinctive psychological insight. Amid a world rife with political hypocrisy, the pure passion and romance shown by the hero Fabrice grant a strange sense of liberation. I urge you to drink deep of how love, ambition, and the longing for freedom make a human being beautiful, within sentences as intense and dazzling as the Italian sun.

— ONGO · Curator
"Love is a beautiful flower, but we must be brave enough to pick her up from the edge of a precipice."
Stendhal, The Charterhouse of Parma
"사랑이란 우리가 사랑하는 사람을 위해 느끼는 감미로운 환상이다."

🌱Apply It Today

Ask whether you're suppressing the pure passion rising in your heart, bound by the world's rules or others' eyes.

Threads woven through this book

🎵 A Track That Fits This Book · today's feel

多多益善
The More, The Better
다다익선 · virtue of abundance
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