Stendhal: French novelist and essayist, author of The Red and the Black, 1783 to 1842.
Stendhal · The source reads: “Love is like the fever, it is born and spends itself without the slightest intervention of the will.” · From chapter 5 of Stendhal's essay On Love, 1822, on how love is born without our consent.
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