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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
Honore de Balzac
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Honore de Balzac
Age: 52 †
Born: 1799
Born: May 20
Died: 1851
Died: August 19
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A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes it is the life of another that we revere within us then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.
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The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
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A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.
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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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The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.
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Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!
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Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.
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