Honore de Balzac Quotes

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Honore de Balzac Quotes

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Honore de Balzac

Novelist

Hopeful

“The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.”

Heart Real Adversity

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Honore de Balzac

Novelist

Sad

“Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.”

Break Lovers Scoundrels

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Spiritual

“Sensuality is the death of the soul.”

Soul Sensuality

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Inspired

“Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.”

Believe World

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Determined

“I am a galley slave to pen and ink.”

Writing Slave Ink

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Confident

“To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier.”

Wells Fame

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Spiritual

“For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.”

Worship Bread

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Love

“A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.”

Husband Deceit Sentimental

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Sad

“Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief.”

Way Mark Anxious

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Hopeful

“Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.”

Men Christian Events

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Melancholic

“Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.”

Art Real Lying

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Courageous

“To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.”

Money Gold Add

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