Whoso says "Investigate" says "Revolt." All revolt is either the cloak that hides a prince, or the swaddling-clothes of a new mastery.
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Citations by Honoré de Balzac
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.
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Suicide, moreover, was at that time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
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For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?
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Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
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Persons without minds are like weeds that delight in good earth; they want to be amused by others, all the more because they are dull within.
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The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.
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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
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Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
The passion, observe, which is able to reflect, gives even to ninnies, fools, and imbeciles a species of intelligence, especially in youth.
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