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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
Honore de Balzac
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Honore de Balzac
Age: 52 †
Born: 1799
Born: May 20
Died: 1851
Died: August 19
Art Critic
Dramaturge
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Prosaist
Writer
Tours
France
Balzac
Horace de Saint- Aubin
Onoreh deh Balzaḳ
Lord R'Hoone
Ônôrē de Balzaq
Jeune ceélibataire
Onore de Balzak
Honorato De Balzac
H. Balzak
Honoreé De Balzac
H. Balzac
Horace de S.- Aubin
Honoriusz Balzac
Un Jeune ceélibataire
Lord O'Rhoone
Ūnūrīh dī Balzāk
R'Hoone
Onore de Bal'zak
Hônôrê đơ Banzăc
Honore de Balzak
de. Balzac
Feelings
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I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.
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The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.
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It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
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The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
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My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, Serve all, love one.
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Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.
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