Honore de Balzac Quotes

I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

Honore de Balzac

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• To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

  

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• Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.

  

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• I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

  

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• The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.

  

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• Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.

  

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• With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.

  

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• Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.

  

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• I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.

  

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• I don't know anything about music.

  

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• When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

  

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• You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.

  

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• I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

  

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• Is an out-of-control life challenge making you feel 'out of control' over your entire life? If so, stop lying around doing nothing. Stop sleeping late. Stop watching too much TV. Start recognizing that this lack of a disciplined schedule will only increase your feelings of being out of control of your life.

  

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• Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.

  

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• If you want to see the real Pablo Escobar, go see a documentary.

  

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• All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.

  

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• It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.

  

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• I know that no business contract, no order or commercial consideration can ever be worth the happiness of one's home or the peace of one's mind.

  

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• Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.

  

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• When we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each attribute acquired by experience falls away from the soul, which becomes anew such as it was once and will surely be again.

  

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• I'm not waiting for times to change I want to live like a free-roaming soul on the highway of our love.

  

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• He who seeks truth must be content with a lonely, little-trodden path. If he cannot worship her till she has been canonized by the shouts of the multitude, he must take his place with the members of that wretched crowd who shouted for two long hours, 'Great is Diana of the Ephesians!' till truth, reason, and calmness were all drowned in noise.

  

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• I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Soul
  • Literature
  • Victory