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Honore de Balzac Quotes

Honore de Balzac quotes

French Novelist May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850

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Honore de Balzac quote: "Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one..."
Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves! Honore de Balzac
Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love. Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal..."
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity. Honore de Balzac
Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation. Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "The more a man judges, the less he loves"
The more a man judges, the less he loves Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "The more one judges, the less one loves."
The more one judges, the less one loves. Honore de Balzac
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital. Honore de Balzac
A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears. Honore de Balzac
What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugne de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen... Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life..."
And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink. Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of..."
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. Honore de Balzac
Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch. Honore de Balzac
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition. Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac quote: "Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what..."
Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society? Honore de Balzac
He will show you how, during the springtime of life, illusions, innocent hopes, silver threads of gossamer, descend from heaven and return there without ever touching the earth. Honore de Balzac

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