Honore de Balzac Quotes

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Honore de Balzac Quotes

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Honore de Balzac

Novelist

Philosophical

“Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.”

Thinking Intuition Thoughtful

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Honore de Balzac

Novelist

Angry

“To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.”

Country Mother Marriage

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Rebellious

“The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.”

Men Profit

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Sad

“Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.”

Fighting Marriage

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Motivated

“A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.”

Book Beautiful Victory

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Angry

“Behind every fortune there is a crime.”

Crime Fortune

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Grateful

“Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.”

Feelings Wells

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Nostalgic

“Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.”

Mind Memories Peculiar

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Funny

“He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.”

Funny Reading Dog

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Creative

“We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.”

Book Law Rose

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Love

“Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.”

Art Love Simple

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Love

“Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.”

Heart Doe Gloves

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