Honore de Balzac Quotes - Page 23

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• Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

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  Ocean, Society, Levels

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• They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.

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  Stupid, Bed, World

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• Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

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  Power, Political, Principles

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• Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyments have been intellectual joys.

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  Keys, Joy, Intellectual

  "The Wild Ass's Skin". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1831.

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• Glory is the sunshine of the dead

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  Sunshine, Glory

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• He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

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  Winning, Men, Lasts

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• We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

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  Home, Light, Back Home

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• 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, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.

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  Heart, Character, Maturity

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• I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

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  Feelings, Paper, Action

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• Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

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  Humility, Anti Bullying, Suffering

  Honore de Balzac, Pierre F. Limouzy (1999). “CliffsNotes on Balzac's Pere Goriot”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.

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  Beautiful, Book, Victory

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• There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.

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  Sympathy, Pain, Depth

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• Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats

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  Wine, Cat, Oil

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• All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds?

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  Spiritual, Silence, Heaven

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• Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

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  Reality, Imagination, Details

  "The Purse".

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• When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

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  Writing, Talent, Particular

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• Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking .. questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological, and political systems which preoccupy the world.

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  Philosophical, Journey, Men

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• From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

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  Stitches, Thread, Needlework

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• The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.

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  Death, Science, Actors

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• As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural.

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  Simple, Men, Secret

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• Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.

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  Moving, Secret, Affair

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• All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

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  Art, Poetry, Vision

  Honore De Balzac (2011). “Louis Lambert”, p.36, The Floating Press

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• Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.

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  Couple, Fighting, Blessing

  Honore de Balzac (1925). “The Physiology of Marriage”, p.29, Library of Alexandria

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• The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule.

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  Spirit, Rebellious, Rebellion

  "'Catherine de Medici expliquée' ('About Catherine of Medici')". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1843.

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• A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?

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  Doubt, Suffering, Doe

  1831 La Recherche de l'absolu.

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