Honore de Balzac Quotes

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.

Honore de Balzac

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• I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

  

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• It's so essential to happiness to speak your truth out loud - because this sharing of your core pain is what creates a necessary healing shift - from negative beliefs about the world - to positive beliefs - and frees you up to be able to fully view life with meaning, purpose and connection with others.

  

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• Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

  

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• I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.

  

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• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

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• Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.

  

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• A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.

  

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• There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.

  

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• When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

  

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• Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

  

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• I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.

  

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• Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.

  

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• Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

  

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• America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.

  

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• In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.

  

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• I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.

  

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• You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

  

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• I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.

  

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• Acting became important. It became an art that belonged to the actor, not to the director or producer, or the man whose money had bought the studio. It was an art that transformed you into somebody else, that increased your life and mind. I had always loved acting and tried hard to learn it. But with Michael Chekhov, acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.

  

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• The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

  

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• It's one of those tracks I feel comfortable at and have always found that I can get around there pretty good. It's always a treat to go to Michigan. We're looking forward to running well on Saturday.

  

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• My wife made me get a cellphone, which I keep in my briefcase. I've never used it.

  

  Alan C. Greenberg
  • Wife

• 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.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Wife
  • Property
  • Appendage