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Letter "H" » Honore de Balzac Quotes
«If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.»
«To loaf is a science, to loaf is to live»
«One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.»
«Believe anything you hear about the world; nothing is too impossibly bad»
«There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
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«Life cannot go on without much forgetting.»
«Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.»
«You may imitate, but never counterfeit.»
«Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
«The glory of surgeons is like that of actors, who exist only in their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
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