Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Love is the funeral of hearts.
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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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People vote with their hearts, not their heads.
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Millions of Spaniards have Catalonia in their hearts.
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When people see you do alright, then you start winning their hearts. It's not going to come easy, though. It doesn't matter how many people you do right, you're still going to be hated by so many others. You can't live your life trying to make everybody happy.
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It is just that he should act with reserve towards those who act with reserve towards him. On the contrary, he gives himself entirely to those souls, who, driving from their hearts everything that is not God, and does not lead them to his love, and giving themselves to him without reserve, truly say to him: My God and my all.
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I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
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The resilience of the economy ... is helping it to absorb the shocks to energy and transportation from the hurricanes.
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Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
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Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of Circe it changes men into brutes and animals alternately into men.
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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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Love is about letting go of the fears that stand in front of our hearts.
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When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our pain and that of others.
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For hearts where wakened love doth lurk, How fine, how blest a thing is work! For work does good when reasons fail.
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As useful as it may be, in the end, I don't think technology can ever fully express what people are feeling in their hearts.
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Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.
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The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.
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Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.
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I've always had the sensation that people in America are always avant-garde. Very attentive to all the new innovations. But it's very specialized.
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Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of life.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.
