Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Quote by Honore De Balzac
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Honore De Balzac Quotes
- Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
- It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
- The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
- There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
- A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
- All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
- 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.
- A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
- We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
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