Honore de Balzac Quotes - Page 24

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• When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

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  Men, Self, Doe

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• When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.

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  Horse, Heart, Intelligent

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• Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.

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  Doe, Delicacy, Sometimes

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• Nothing about me surprises me.

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  Surprise, Surprise Me

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• If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.

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  Nature, Giving, Enchantment

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Seraphita: Works of Balzac”, p.29, 谷月社

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• Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our free will is crossed?

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  Inspire, Suffering, Desire

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• All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds?

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  Spiritual, Silence, Heaven

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• Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking .. questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological, and political systems which preoccupy the world.

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  Philosophical, Journey, Men

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• Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.

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  Soul, Sorrow, Bed

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• The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study.

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  Paris, People, Kitchen

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• And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

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  People, Drink, Pleasure

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• What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.

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  Heart, Character, Maturity

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• Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.

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  Solitude, Labor

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• I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

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  Feelings, Paper, Action

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• The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

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  Spring, Mistake, Errors

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• In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

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  Painting, Deals, Huge

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• Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

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  Reality, Imagination, Details

  "The Purse".

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• He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

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  Winning, Men, Lasts

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• We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

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  Home, Light, Back Home

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• The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

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  Heart, Hatred, Here And There

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Father Goriot”, p.24, Library of Alexandria

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• Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

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  Girl, Angel, Forgiving

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Father Goriot”, p.92, Library of Alexandria

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• Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

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  Men, Stupidity, Feelings

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• For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

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  People, Mind, Noble

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• Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyments have been intellectual joys.

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  Keys, Joy, Intellectual

  "The Wild Ass's Skin". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1831.

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• Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together.

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  Love, Two, Feelings

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