No one ought even to desert a woman after throwing her a heap of gold in her distress! He ought to love her forever! You are young, only twenty-one, and kind and upright and fine. You'll ask me how a woman can take money from a man. Oh, God, isn't it natural to share everything with the one we owe all our happiness to? When one has given everything, how can one quibble about a mere portion of it? Money is important only when feeling has ceased. Isn't one bound for life? How can you foresee separation when you think someone loves you? When a man swears eternal love--how can there be any separate concerns in that case?
Honoré de BalzacTag: money love emotion sense sincerity finance
A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.
Honoré de BalzacTag: love writing romance letter
However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?
Honoré de BalzacTag: passion beauty people psychology emotion sincerity observation personality description ugliness
Madame de Nucingen was already there, dressed with the deliberate aim of appealing to all eyes, knowing that thereby she would seem even more attractive to Eugène.
Honoré de BalzacTag: manipulation attractiveness
How did you get back?' asked Vautrin.
'I walked,' replied Eugene.
'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.'
'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer.
Tag: manipulation life-philosophy extremism
You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.
Honoré de BalzacTag: humor coolness cockiness eloquence swagger
Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.
Honoré de BalzacTag: women emotion sincerity feeling
Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.
Honoré de BalzacTag: pleasant
Elle était jolie par juxtaposition.
Honoré de BalzacLe bonheur est la poésie des femmes.
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