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To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

Honore de Balzac
Suffering, Devotion, Feels

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

Honore de Balzac
Girl, Suffering, Pleasure

Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

Honore de Balzac
Men, Suffering, Rivals

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

Honore de Balzac
Pain, Men, Suffering
Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.15, 谷月社

Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

Honore de Balzac
Women, Angel, Suffering

Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our free will is crossed?

Honore de Balzac
Inspire, Suffering, Desire

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

Honore de Balzac
Humility, Anti Bullying, Suffering
Honore de Balzac, Pierre F. Limouzy (1999). “CliffsNotes on Balzac's Pere Goriot”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

Honore de Balzac
Girl, Mind, Suffering

Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

Honore de Balzac
Women, Suffering, Weakness

A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?

Honore de Balzac
Doubt, Suffering, Doe
1831 La Recherche de l'absolu.

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