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Honoré de Balzac

The Magic Skin

  • Votha Vannhas quoted8 years ago
    Towards the end of the month of October 1829 a young man entered the Palais-Royal just as the gaming-houses opened, agreeably to the law which protects a passion by its very nature easily excisable.
  • b5615531229has quoted4 years ago
    The Project Gutenberg EB
  • Дашаhas quoted7 years ago
    There is something great and terrible about suicide. Most people's downfalls are not dangerous; they are like children who have not far to fall, and cannot injure themselves; but when a great nature is dashed down, he is bound to fall from a height
  • Nona Gevorgyanhas quoted10 years ago
    Everything is movement, thought itself is a movement, upon movement nature is based. Death is a movement whose limitations
  • Nona Gevorgyanhas quoted10 years ago
    Everything is movement, thought itself is a movement, upon movement nature is based. Death is a movement whose limitations are little known. If God is eternal, be sure that He moves perpetually; perhaps God is movement. That is why movement, like God is inexplicable, unfathomable, unlimited, incomprehensible, intangible
  • Nona Gevorgyanhas quoted10 years ago
    He had given up all the rights of life in order to live; he had despoiled his soul of all the romance that lies in a wish; and almost rejoiced at thus becoming a sort of automaton. The better to struggle with the cruel power that he had challenged, he had followed Origen's example, and had maimed and chastened his imagination.
  • Nona Gevorgyanhas quoted10 years ago
    It would be a blundering kind of hatred that would murder you! You need not fear violence of any kind; I have spent a whole night at the foot of your bed without
  • Nona Gevorgyanhas quoted10 years ago
    'A fellow as clever as that will keep all his enthusiasms in his brain
  • Nona Gevorgyanhas quoted10 years ago
    'I cannot choose but do it.
  • Nona Gevorgyanhas quoted10 years ago
    Some are born blind, and nature may easily have formed women who in like manner are blind, deaf, and dumb to lov
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