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• Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

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  Voice, Soul, Desert

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• Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear black, too, for are they not in mourning for every virtue and every illusion?

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  Men, Thinking, Law

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• There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

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  Smile, Pregnancy, Literature

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• I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.

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  Thinking, Wind, Well Known

  "Pages from the Goncourt Journal". Book by Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt, 2007.

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• Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

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  Women, Dresses, Poetic

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• To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.

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  Live Life, Passion, Eye

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• One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.

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  Women, Feelings, Action

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• If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

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  Civilization, Ignorant, Would Be

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Old Goriot: Classic French Literature”, p.45, 谷月社

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• Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.

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  Passion, Justice, Victim

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• By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.

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  Self, Resignation, Unfortunate

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• Sensuality is the death of the soul.

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  Soul, Sensuality

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• A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.

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  Husband, Deceit, Sentimental

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• Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

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  Men, Poet

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• What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?

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  Motherhood, Mood, Save Nature

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.171, The Floating Press

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• Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?

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  Heart, Pride, Men

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Old Goriot: Classic French Literature”, p.74, 谷月社

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• The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.

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  Real, Adversity, Heart

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• Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.

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  Intimate, Evasion, Unworthy

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• All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

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  Idols, Noble, Want

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• Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

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  Enchantment, Literature, Study

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.102, The Floating Press

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• A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

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  Clothes, Vices, Mishaps

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• A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

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  Love, Credit, Favors

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• The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.

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  Passion, Greed, Gold

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• The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.

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  Names, Weather, Earth

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• Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.

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  Gratitude, Moving, Winter

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• The innocence of virgins is like milk which turns when exposed to a clap of thunder, to a tart smell, to a hot day, to the merest nothing.

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  Smell, Hot, Milk

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