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• Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.

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  Love, Spring, Ocean

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.121, The Floating Press

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• You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

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  May, Imitation, Counterfeit

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• To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

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  Men, Rich, Poor

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• Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

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  Anger, Heart, Mud

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• Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

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  Mind, Benevolence, Persecution

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• Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere.

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  Grief, People, Shining

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• I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

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  Love, Witty, Power

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.92, The Floating Press

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• Love knows nothing of modesty.

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  Love, Modesty, Knows

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• Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

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  Struggle, Pride, Men

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• Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.

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  Character, Lakes, Serenity

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.152, 谷月社

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• True love rules especially through memory.

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  Memories

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• The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.

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  Mother, Lying, Hands

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• The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.

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  Animal, Men, Gluttony

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• People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.

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  People, Society, Climbs

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• Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face.

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  Light, Shining, Clay

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• Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

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  Suicide, Keys, Paris

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

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• Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.

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  Eccentricity

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• Vivacity is the health of the spirit.

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  Spirit, Vivacity

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• They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

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  Passion, Ends, Great Passion

  Honore de Balzac (1899). “A Passion in the Desert”, p.17, Library of Alexandria

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• The union of a want and a sentiment.

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  Love, Poetry, Unions

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• Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.

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  Virtue, Force, Misfortunes

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• A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

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  Monsters, Familiarity

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life”, p.89, The Floating Press

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• Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.

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  Religious, Twins, Madness

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• The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.

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  Couple, Passion, Hazards

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• Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?

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  Feelings, Sentiments

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