Honore De Balzac Quotes, Love Quotes, Heart Quotes

You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.

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Love is the most melodious of all harmonies.

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You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.

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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

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Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.

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Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.

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Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere.

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Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

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During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

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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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Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.

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A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.

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

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Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

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

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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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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!

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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

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It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.

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