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“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
―“Reading brings us unknown friends”
―“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
― Physiologie Du Mariage“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
―“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.”
―“It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.”
― Père Goriot“Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.”
― Père Goriot“Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.”
― Père Goriot“Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance”
―“Behind every great fortune there is a crime.”
―“Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.”
―“Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.”
―“It is absurd to pretend that one cannot love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good artist needs several violins to execute a piece of music.”
―“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness”
―“for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea”
―“I am not deep, but I am very wide.”
―“There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.”
―“Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!”
― Père Goriot“I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.”
― Père Goriot“Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.”
―“A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.”
― Père Goriot“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.”
―“Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?”
― Père Goriot“True love is eternal, infinite and always like itself. It's always equal and pure. Without violent demonstrations: It is seen with white hairs and is always young at heart.”
―“This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army on the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensign to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of wit start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.”
―“Passion is born deaf and dumb.”
―“An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.”
―“Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.”
― Père Goriot“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”
―“However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?”
― Père Goriot
Saturday, March 20, 2021
Honoré de Balzac
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