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Honore de Balzac Quotes

Honore de Balzac quotes about color

French Novelist May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850

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The faint hints of color in her complexion, her tawny blond hair, her extraordinary thinness, all spoke of that unearthly grace modern poets find in the medieval statues. Had she been happy, she'd have been ravishing: happiness constitutes pure poetry, for women. Honore de Balzac
However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will? Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation..."
Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire..."
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like..."
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. Honore de Balzac

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