Honoré de Balzac - Love Quotes

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When women love, they forgive everything, even our crimes; when they do not love, they cannot forgive anything, not even our virtues.

Honoré de Balzac
A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

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Modesty, or rather a fear of being unworthy, is one of the first virtues aroused by love.

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Love is like some fresh spring that leaves its cresses, its gravel bed, and flowers to become first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.

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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

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Conjugal Love should never put on or take off his bandage but at an opportune time.

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It is as absurd to pretend that one can not love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good artist needs several violins to execute a piece of music.

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Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love.

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In love, one must not attack a place unless one storms it.

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Between two beings susceptible to love, the duration of love depends upon the first resistance of the woman, or the obstacles that society puts in their way.

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A man who can love deeply is never utterly contemptible.

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The laws of love unite man and woman so strongly that no human laws can separate them.

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To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

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