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It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.
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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The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.
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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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The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.
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Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.
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God is the poet men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.
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Passion is born deaf and dumb.
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The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.
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Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.
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When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?
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There are words which cut like steel.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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With monuments as with men, position means everything.
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What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?
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Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.
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What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.
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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
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