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“And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.”

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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

“However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?”

“How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.' 'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer.”

Want Said My Own Pleasure Half Comfort Very Good Boxes Get Back Motto Carriages My Motto

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.”

Feelings Natural Midst Falsity Natural Feelings

Author:Honore de Balzac

“You've got nothing to worry about. The righteous do not always right, but their souls remain pure. -Lassiter the Angel”

Soul Worry Pure Angel Righteous Lover Enshrined

Author:J.R. Ward

“You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.”

Men Young Girl Fine Proud Devil Gentle Young Man Lions Eloquence Fastidious Cockiness

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.”

Sometimes Sleep

Author:Honore de Balzac

“I wake up in the morning and I see that flower, with the dew on its petals, and at the way it's folding out, and it makes me happy, she said. It's important to focus on the things in the here and now, I think. In a month, the flower will be shriveled and you will miss its beauty if you don't make the effort to do it now. Your life, eventually, is the same way.”

Ifs Thinking Way Said Important Effort Morning Focus Missing Flower Months Wake Up Here And Now Dew Make Me Happy Petals Folding

Author:Dan Buettner

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.) The stars go waltzing out in blue and red, And arbitrary blackness gallops in: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.)”

Thinking World Made Eye Stars Born Bed Moon Red Blue Insane Lifts Arbitrary Born Again Blackness Bewitched

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter's cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.”

Heaven Sun Cold Mouths Winter Warm Stores June Lad Mould

Book:Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

“The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.”

Light Trouble Mines Ready Lovers Fame Luck Meetings Steady Fleeting Lovers Meeting

Book:Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

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