Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac
Honoré de Balzacbal.zak], born Honoré Balzac, 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie Humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 May 1799
CountryFrance
fate blood political
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
opposites way literature
Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.
men race touching
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
father men bakers
It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.
lying greatest-fear anticipation
Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
seeking
While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.
love poetry expansion
Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God
book reading
Reading brings us unknown friends
night mad spy
A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life
hate hatred soul
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
book hands doubt
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.
mean men position
With monuments as with men, position means everything.
feelings life-is
Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
wide
I am not deep, but I am very wide.