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Famous Honore de Balzac Quotes
“Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.”
“Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.”
“Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.”
“Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.”
Source: Pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet
“The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.”
Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin
“Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.”
Source: Letters of Two Brides
“I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.”
“The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.”
“Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.”