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Honore de Balzac Quotes

«We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.»
«A mother who is really a mother is never free.»
Author: Honore de Balzac (Novelist) | About: Mothers
«The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.»
Author: Honore de Balzac (Novelist) | About: Mothers | Keywords: abyss, at the bottom
«Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face»
«He went to bed and slept the sleep of the good-for-nothing which, by an anachronism not a single songwriter has yet struck, is proven to be more sound than that of innocence»
«It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.»
«An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.»
«To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.»
«It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to produce the occasional bon mot»
«A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness»

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