Politics in the middle of things that concern the imagination are like a pistol-shot in the middle of a concert.

La politique au milieu des interets d'imagination, c'est un coup de pistolet au milieu d'un concert.

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Original Citation

Stendhal. Le Rouge et le Noir: Chronique du XIXe siècle [The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the 19th Century]. Vol. 2, Paris: A. Levasseur, c. 1830, ch. 22.

Current Citation

Stendhal. The Red and the Black, translated by Catherine Slater. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2, ch. 22.