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I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.
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
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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
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.
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To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.
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Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.
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Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.
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When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Behind every fortune there is a crime.
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We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.
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Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?
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With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.
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The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.
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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
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