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It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

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Poetry, Sorrow, Radiance

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Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

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Marriage, Party, Fighting

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When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.

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Women, Talking, Storm

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Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out the past in this manner, life for them would lose all dignity and they could never resist the fatal familiarities to which they once submitted.

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Past, Icy, Snuff

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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

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Heart, Exercise, Equality

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Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

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Honest, Praise, Said

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The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

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Children, Effort, Majestic

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When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.

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Pride, Animal, Earth

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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

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Funny, Money, Tired

Honore de Balzac (2014). “Poor Relations: Cousin Betty and Cousin Pons”, p.772, The Floating Press

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Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.

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Powerful, Passion, Wine

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The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.

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Happiness, Heart, Men

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A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.

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Occupation, Twins, Born

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For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.

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Men, Cities, World

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The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

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Men, Despair, Sauntering

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All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

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Art, Poetry, Vision

Honore De Balzac (2011). “Louis Lambert”, p.36, The Floating Press

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Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.

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Couple, Fighting, Blessing

Honore de Balzac (1925). “The Physiology of Marriage”, p.29, Library of Alexandria

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A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

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Mother, Loss, Hands

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The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule.

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Spirit, Rebellious, Rebellion

"'Catherine de Medici expliquée' ('About Catherine of Medici')". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1843.

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Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.

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Hatred, Giants, Journalism

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Beaucoup d'hommes ont un orgueil qui les pousse a' cacher leurs combats et a' ne se montrer que victorieux. Many men have pride that causes them to hide their combats and to only show themselves victorious.

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Pride, Men, Causes

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A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?

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Doubt, Suffering, Doe

1831 La Recherche de l'absolu.

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Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit.

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Monsters, Habit, Should

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Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is always forgiveness.

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Mother, Pardon

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La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.

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Thrones, Married, Slave

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Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.

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Husband, Government, Needs

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Born: May 20, 1799
Died: August 18, 1850
Occupation: Novelist
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