Tag: Honore de Balzac
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A mother’s life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
Honore de Balzac
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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
Honore de Balzac
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There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
Honore de Balzac
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
Honore de Balzac
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore de Balzac
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
Honore de Balzac
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
Honore de Balzac
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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.
Honore de Balzac
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Love is a game in which one always cheats.
Honore de Balzac
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Honore de Balzac