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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
Honore de Balzac
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Honore de Balzac
Age: 52 †
Born: 1799
Born: May 20
Died: 1851
Died: August 19
Art Critic
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Balzac
Horace de Saint- Aubin
Onoreh deh Balzaḳ
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Un Jeune ceélibataire
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Ūnūrīh dī Balzāk
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Onore de Bal'zak
Hônôrê đơ Banzăc
Honore de Balzak
de. Balzac
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One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species and, in fine, to have invented love.
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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.
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A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.
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We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
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Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.
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The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.
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By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.
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Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.
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All happiness depends on courage and work.
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Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters.
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The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.
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The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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