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Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

Honore de Balzac
Men, Stupidity, Feelings

Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together.

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Love, Two, Feelings

When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

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Writing, Talent, Particular

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

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Feelings, Paper, Action

A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.

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Beautiful, Book, Victory

There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.

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Sympathy, Pain, Depth

Nothing about me surprises me.

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Surprise, Surprise Me

In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

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Painting, Deals, Huge

Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

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Sleep, Sometimes

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.

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Girl, Men, Devil

My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.

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Writing, Tables, My Thoughts

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?

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Strong, Stress, Moving

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

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People, Drink, Pleasure

All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds?

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Spiritual, Silence, Heaven

Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.

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Solitude, Labor

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

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Mother, Drama, Long
"Letters of Two Brides". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1842.

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

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People, Mind, Noble

If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.

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Nature, Giving, Enchantment
Honore de Balzac (2015). “Seraphita: Works of Balzac”, p.29, 谷月社

Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

Honore de Balzac
Reality, Imagination, Details
"The Purse".

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

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Winning, Men, Lasts

Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]

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Paris, Doe, Gondolas

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

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Fate, Blood, Political

Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

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Secret, Unhappy, Links

My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one."

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Women, Advice, Chivalry
"The Lily of the Valley". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1835.

But does not happiness come from the soul within?

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Happiness, Soul, Doe
Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.76, The Floating Press

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