Action Quote by Honore de Balzac

“Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.”

Honore de Balzac

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“Oh, my friend, when you love, love a woman whom you are sure that you can love always. Never forsake a woman.”

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“You have broken the ice, though you have not even scratched its glossy surface: you have placed your hand upon the croup of the most ferocious and savage, the most wakeful and clear-sighted, the most restless, the swiftest, the most jealous, the most ardent and violent, the simplest and most elegant, the most unreasonable, the most watchful chimera of the…

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My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.

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A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.

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Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to…

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I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

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One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.

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White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world;…

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