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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.
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
Lord R'Hoone
Ônôrē de Balzaq
Jeune ceélibataire
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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
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Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.
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How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.
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Genius is answerable only to itself it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.
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Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.
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Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!
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Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.
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For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.
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Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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There are words which cut like steel.
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There is nothing original all is reflected light.
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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
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The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.
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A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.
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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
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Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.
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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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