Honore De Balzac Quotes, Wish Quotes, Spirit Quotes

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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Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

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There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

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Economized love is never real love.

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Finance, like time, devours its own children.

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In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

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All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

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What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.

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We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.

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Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

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Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking; love has found.

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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

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A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

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The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

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A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

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At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.

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Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.

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If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

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