Honore de Balzac Quotes

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Honore de Balzac Quotes

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Honore de Balzac

Novelist

Courageous

“Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.”

Mind Persecution Benevolence

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Honore de Balzac

Novelist

Love

“All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.”

Want Noble Idols

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Melancholic

“Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.”

Heart Anger

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Funny

“A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.”

Monsters Familiarity

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Thoughtful

“Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?”

Feelings Sentiments

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Love

“Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.”

Religious Madness Twins

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Love

“The union of a want and a sentiment.”

Love Poetry

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Melancholic

“Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.”

House Literature

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Sad

“The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.”

Passion Couple Hazards

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Love

“L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.”

Art Feelings Love Is

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Love

“The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.”

Doe Nature

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Melancholic

“Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?”

Heart Sight

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