Honore de Balzac Quotes - Page 17

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• I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

  Honore de Balzac

  Writing, Ink, Slave

  Letter to Zulma Carraud, translated by C. Lamb Kenney, July 2, 1832.

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• But does not happiness come from the soul within?

  Honore de Balzac

  Happiness, Soul, Doe

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.76, The Floating Press

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• Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

  Honore de Balzac

  Sleep, Sometimes

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• Economized love is never real love.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Real, Heart

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• Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from?
  [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]

  Honore de Balzac

  Paris, Doe, Gondolas

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• Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Despair, Criminals

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• Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.

  Honore de Balzac

  Gowns, Never Quit, Priests

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• Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Feelings, Stronger

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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.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Order, Neighbor

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• Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

  Honore de Balzac

  Gone, Today, Nobility

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• Un homme n'a jamais pu e lever sa ma|"tresse jusqu'a' lui; mais une femme place toujours son amant aussi haut qu'elle. A man can never elevate his mistress to his rank, but a woman can always place her lover as high as she.

  Honore de Balzac

  Son, Men, Mistress

  1829 Physiologie du mariage.

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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.

  Honore de Balzac

  Children, Women, Thinking

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• Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.

  Honore de Balzac

  Eye, Starlight, Virgins

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• Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space.

  Honore de Balzac

  Space, Soul, Wells

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• Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Hypocrisy, Littles

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.94, The Floating Press

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• On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts.

  Honore de Balzac

  Friends, Dog, True Friend

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• Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspiration, Opportunity, Genius

  Honore de Balzac (2010). “Cousin Bette”, p.334, The Floating Press

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• What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

  Honore de Balzac

  Children, Two, Fruit

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.70, 谷月社

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• We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.

  Honore de Balzac

  Cost, Care, Longing

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• The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

  Honore de Balzac

  Karma, Past, Secret

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Seraphita: Works of Balzac”, p.101, 谷月社

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• Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.

  Honore de Balzac

  Opposites, Literature, Way

  "A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

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• In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors nor cares a fig about them. He is content to rob them if he can.

  Honore de Balzac

  Race, Land, Care

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• If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Way, Affection

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• Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

  Honore de Balzac

  Couple, Husband, Wife

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• It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

  Honore de Balzac

  People, Want, Affair

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