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Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.

Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.

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Eccentricity

The union of a want and a sentiment.

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Love, Poetry, Unions

They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

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Passion, Ends, Great Passion
Honore de Balzac (1899). “A Passion in the Desert”, p.17, Library of Alexandria

Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.

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Virtue, Force, Misfortunes

A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

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Monsters, Familiarity
Honore de Balzac (2014). “Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life”, p.89, The Floating Press

L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.

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Art, Love Is, Feelings

Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?

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Feelings, Sentiments

Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.

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Religious, Twins, Madness

The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.

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Couple, Passion, Hazards

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

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Compassion, Criminals, Littles

Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.

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Clouds, Veils
Honore de Balzac (2015). “Seraphita: Works of Balzac”, p.46, 谷月社

The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.

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Nature, Doe, Deceiving
Honore de Balzac (2015). “The Country Doctor: Works of Balzac”, p.101, 谷月社

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.

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Fake People, Duplicity, Flow
Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.48, The Floating Press

With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

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Punishment, Expectations, Soul

Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.

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People, Matter, France

Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking; love has found.

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Spiritual, Angel, Science

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

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Feelings, Natural, Midst

Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

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Vices, Audacity, Innocence

When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?

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Fashion, Good Man, Littles

Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

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Lying, Men, Gambling

In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.

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People, Bed, Accepting

With monuments as with men, position means everything.

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Mean, Men, Position

Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

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Clothes, Veils, Advantage

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

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House, Literature, Ruins

Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

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Love, Self Love

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