Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin
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Famous Honore de Balzac Quotes
Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin
Source: Letters of Two Brides
Source: Letters of Two Brides
“One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.”
Source: Letters of Two Brides
Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin
“The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.”
Source: Seraphita: Works of Balzac
“Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.”
Source: Cousin Bette
Source: Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life
“The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.”
“Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.”
“Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.”
“It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.”
“Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.”
“The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.”
“It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.”
Source: Father Goriot
“If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.”
Source: Old Goriot: Classic French Literature
Source: Old Goriot: Classic French Literature
Source: Father Goriot
“For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.”
“Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.”
“A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.”
“France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.”
“Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.”
“Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.”
Source: Cesar Birotteau and Gaudissart the Great
“My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.”
“A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.”
Source: Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life
“Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.”