Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!
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Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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There is nothing original; all is reflected light.
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Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.
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Economized love is never real love.
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The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.
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The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.
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When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.
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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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But woman brings disorder into society through passion.
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Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.
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Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.
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With monuments as with men, position means everything.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.
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To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.
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The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.
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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.
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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.