Honoré de Balzac - God Quotes

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In the desert there is all—and yet nothing.... God is there and man is not.

Honoré de Balzac

God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.

Honoré de Balzac

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

Honoré de Balzac

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

Honoré de Balzac

Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

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What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.

Honoré de Balzac

We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.

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Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!

Honoré de Balzac