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Nothing about me surprises me.

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
Surprises
Surprise
Nothing

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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves it is or it is not.
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Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief.
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Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.
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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
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In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about the barricades of our revolutions. So, at the assizes of the Last Judgment, there will always be a Frenchmen to crack a joke.
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