Community Quote by Honoré de Balzac

“Despite noble depravity, there was something intoxicating about high society.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.”

— Geraldine Brooks

“Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“And yet, and yet. This place exerts an elemental pull on me. There is no end of fascinations. People talk all the time, calling…

— Teju Cole

“The bad stuff that is part and parcel of contrived social existence takes a back seat when you concentrate on the heart of Life…

— Valley Brown

“They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries.”

— Tim Sanders

“Everywhere risk and defiance weave through the most mundane daily affairs.”

— Lucia Berlin

“There is great nobility in ordinary people. The world disappoints us all, and the ways we change our own stories to survive that disappointment…

— Daniel Abraham

“In a sense life in the high-rise had begun to resemble the world outside - there were the same ruthlessness and agression concealed within…

— J.G. Ballard

“For every summons to a shining city on the hill or a promise of change we can believe in, we are presented with hundreds…

— Nikki Stern

“I detest common heroes and moderate feelings, the sort that exist in real life”

— Gustave Flaubert

“It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.”

— Abhijit Naskar