Honore de Balzac Quotes
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A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.
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Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.
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When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
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Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.
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What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor?
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When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true.
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I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
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For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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All we are is in the soul.
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No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.
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The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.
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A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.
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Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is always forgiveness.