Honore De Balzac Quotes, Women Quotes, Fall Quotes

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

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The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

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How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.' 'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer.

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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

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A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.

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Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

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But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead of being the executioner, you'll be the victim. And if you ever fall in love, keep that absolutely secret! Never breathe a word until you're completely sure of the person to whom you open your heart. And to protect that love, even before you feel it, learn to despise the world.

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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.

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For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

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Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.

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Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.

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In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.

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The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

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Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.

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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

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Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

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One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

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They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

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