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Honore de Balzac Biography:
Was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815.
Date of Birth: May 20, 1799.
Died on: August 18, 1850 at 51 years.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Category: Marriage

Author: Honore de Balzac

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Category: Bureaucracy

Author: Honore de Balzac

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.

Category: Love

Author: Honore de Balzac

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

Category: Love

Author: Honore de Balzac

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Category: Love

Author: Honore de Balzac

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Category: Marriage

Author: Honore de Balzac

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Category: Modesty

Author: Honore de Balzac

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Category: Marriage

Author: Honore de Balzac

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Category: Passion

Author: Honore de Balzac

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Category: Power

Author: Honore de Balzac

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