A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Quote by Honore De Balzac
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Honore De Balzac Quotes
- All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
- There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
- The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
- Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
- All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
- Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
- Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
- The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
- We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
- Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
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