All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Quote by Honore De Balzac
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All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
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Honore De Balzac Quotes
- The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
- There is something great and terrible about suicide.
- Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
- At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.
- Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
- Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
- A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
- Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
- Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
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- Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me like I would die for it.
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- Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.