Honore De Balzac Quotes, Men Quotes, Originality Quotes

The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

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Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.

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Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

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And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

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Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.

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Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

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[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject.

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Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

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I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

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Love knows nothing of modesty.

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Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'

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Sensuality is the death of the soul.

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Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.

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It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.

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White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.

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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

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Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

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Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

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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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