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
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This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.
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Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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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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Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.
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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
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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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Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
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The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
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What is art? Nature concentrated.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.