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Whole Quotes by Honore de Balzac
- The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
- Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
- [Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it…
- What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character,…
- Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must…
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