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Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

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Love, Poetry, Expansion

We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

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Wretched

While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

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Seeking

What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?

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Motherhood, Mood, Save Nature
Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.171, The Floating Press

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

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Perfect, Mazes, Looks
Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.39, The Floating Press

A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.

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Husband, Deceit, Sentimental

A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

Honore de Balzac
Love, Credit, Favors

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

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Enchantment, Literature, Study
Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.102, The Floating Press

Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.

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Love, Spring, Ocean
Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.121, The Floating Press

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

Honore de Balzac
Men, Rich, Poor

Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

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Anger, Heart, Mud

Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere.

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Grief, People, Shining

Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

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Mind, Benevolence, Persecution

Love knows nothing of modesty.

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Love, Modesty, Knows

I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

Honore de Balzac
Love, Witty, Power
Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.92, The Floating Press

Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.

Honore de Balzac
Character, Lakes, Serenity
Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.152, 谷月社

True love rules especially through memory.

Honore de Balzac
Memories

Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

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Struggle, Pride, Men

People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.

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People, Society, Climbs

The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.

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Animal, Men, Gluttony

The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.

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Mother, Lying, Hands

Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face.

Honore de Balzac
Light, Shining, Clay

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

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May, Imitation, Counterfeit

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

Honore de Balzac
Suicide, Keys, Paris
"A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

Vivacity is the health of the spirit.

Honore de Balzac
Spirit, Vivacity

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