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Quote by Honore de Balzac

“During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.”

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French novelist born on May 20, 1799, and died on August 18, 1850. Honore de Balzac is renowned for his profound insight and criticism of 19th-century French society, hailed as the 'father of modern fiction'. more

“It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.”

“Nearly all novels are too long.”

Long Literature Novel

Book:Potterism

Source: Potterism

“A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day.”

Freedom Pleasure Hot Consolation Baths Exquisite Renunciation Luxurious Austerity Hot Baths Rigour

Book:Personal Pleasures

Source: Personal Pleasures

“Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.”

Thinking Want Children Desire Liberty Theory Ought Pure Elements Vote Live By Nuts Spinning Jam Eccentric Children Love Eccentricity Crank

Book:A Casual Commentary

Source: A Casual Commentary

“Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.”

Feels Done Choices Sleep Bed Importance Elsewhere Immense Hostile Sleeping In

Book:A Casual Commentary

Source: A Casual Commentary

“Love's a disease. But curable.”

Disease

Author:Rose Macaulay

“Sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.”

Dream Death Lying Approach Graves Pleasant Wraps Couches Quarry Pleasant Dreams

Author:William C. Bryant

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