Honore De Balzac Quotes, Art Quotes, Passion Quotes

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

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Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'

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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

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A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?

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There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

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You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.

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Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

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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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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

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The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.

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Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.

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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

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The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.

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An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.

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Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration.

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What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.

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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

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Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

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Modesty is the conscience of the body.

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