Honore De Balzac Quotes, Writing Quotes, Style Quotes

Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

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She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.

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A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.

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Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together.

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Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.

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It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

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Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

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We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

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Modesty is the conscience of the body.

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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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Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.

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Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.

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The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

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