Honore De Balzac Quotes, Writing Quotes, Style Quotes

Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!

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No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

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One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.

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It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome.

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However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?

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Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

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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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L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.

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Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.

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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

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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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He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

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Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

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Passion is born deaf and dumb.

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Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.

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The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.

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It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

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