HONORÉ DE BALZAC QUOTES XIX

French novelist and playwright (1799-1850)


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Your wife ought to drink water, lightly tinged with a Burgundy wine agreeable to her taste, but destitute of any tonic properties; every other kind of wine would be bad for her. Never allow her to drink water alone; if you do, you are lost...

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Physiology of Marriage


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Tags: wine


We will not attempt to enumerate the women who are virtuous from stupidity, for it is acknowledged that in love all women have intellect.

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Physiology of Marriage

Tags: women


Love is the poetry of the senses. It has the destiny of all that which is great in man and of all that which proceeds from his thought. Either it is sublime, or it is not. When once it exists, it exists forever and goes on always increasing. This is the love which the ancients made the child of heaven and earth.

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Physiology of Marriage

Tags: destiny


If love is a child, passion is a man.

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Physiology of Marriage

Tags: love


If you have desired your object only for one day, your love perhaps will not last more than three nights.

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Physiology of Marriage

Tags: love


Between persons who are perpetually in each other's company dislike or love increases daily; every moment brings reasons to love or hate each other more and more.

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The Vicar of Tours

Tags: love


A married woman, then, in France presents the spectacle of a queen out at service, of a slave, at once free and a prisoner.

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Physiology of Marriage

Tags: France


Is not Paris a vast field in perpetual turmoil from a storm of interests beneath which are whirled along a crop of human beings, who are, more often than not, reaped by death, only to be born again as pinched as ever, men whose twisted and contorted faces give out at every pore the instinct, the desire, the poisons with which their brains are pregnant; not faces so much as masks; masks of weakness, masks of strength, masks of misery, masks of joy, masks of hypocrisy; all alike worn and stamped with the indelible signs of a panting cupidity?

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The Girl with the Golden Eyes

Tags: death


To write a letter, and to have it posted; to get an answer, to read it and burn it; there we have correspondence stated in the simplest terms.

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Physiology of Marriage


If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

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Père Goriot

Tags: civilization


I longed for a companion to the kingdom of Light; I wished to show you that morsel of mud, I find you bound to it.

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Seraphita


Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love.

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Seraphita

Tags: love


Alas! we cannot understand each other on any point. We are separated by an abyss. You are on the side of darkness, while I—I live in the light, the true Light!

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Seraphita

Tags: light


When a human soul draws its first furrow straight, the rest will follow surely.

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Seraphita

Tags: soul


The final life, the fruition of all other lives, to which the powers of the soul have tended, and whose merits open the Sacred Portals to perfected man, is the life of Prayer.

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Seraphita

Tags: life


In the terrific tumult of raving passions, the holy Voice would have been unheard.

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Gambara


Even thrones rise and fall in France with fearful rapidity. Fifteen years have wreaked their will on a great empire, a monarchy, and a revolution. No one can now dare to count upon the future.

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A Daughter of Eve

Tags: France


Silliness has two ways of comporting itself; it talks, or is silent. Silent silliness can be borne.

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Pierrette


For some days I have begun to tremble when I think of the destiny of women, and to understand why so many wear a sad face beneath the flush brought by the unnatural excitement of social dissipation. Marriage is a mere matter of chance. Look at yours. A storm of wild thoughts has passed over my mind. To be loved every day the same, yet with a difference, to be loved as much after ten years of happiness as on the first day!—such a love demands years. The lover must be allowed to languish, curiosity must be piqued and satisfied, feeling roused and responded to.

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Letters of Two Brides

Tags: chance


What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.

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Ferragus

Tags: fantasy