Honore De Balzac Quotes, Art Quotes, Passion Quotes

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

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Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.

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What is art? Nature concentrated.

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He who best knows the world will love it least.

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No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.

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

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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

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Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?

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You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

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Passion is born deaf and dumb.

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Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.

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Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!

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When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army

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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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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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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

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Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.

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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.

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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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