Love is a game in which one always cheats.
Honoré de BalzacКой ще реши,кое е по-ужасно-пресъхналите сърца или празните черепи?
Honoré de BalzacAh! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!
Honoré de BalzacTags: love girls women self-sacrifice suffering purity generosity
Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?
Honoré de BalzacTags: philosophy tragedy
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.
Honoré de BalzacTags: remaining-silent silence reticence psychology gossip
The viscountess had raised the forefinger of her right hand and made a pretty gesture toward a stool at her feet. There was such intense tyrannical passion in the gesture that the marquis relinquished the doorknob and came back.
Honoré de BalzacTags: power woman grace description
The duchess turned on Eugène with one of those insolent stares that envelop a man from head to foot, flatten him out, and leave him at zero.
Honoré de BalzacTags: humor description
He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.
Honoré de BalzacTags: determination pride truism self-assuredness
What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.
Honoré de BalzacTags: youth psychology maturity
And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.
Honoré de BalzacTags: happiness pleasure gluttony gastronomy
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