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Eugénie Grandet (1833)
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How frightful is man's condition! There is not one of his joys which does not come from some ignorance or other.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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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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He drew out the most delicious thin watch that Breguet had ever made. 'Fancy, it is eleven o'clock, I was up early'.
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Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.
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One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.
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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
Albert Camus
Honoré de Balzac
Born:
May 20, 1799
Died:
August 18, 1850
(aged 51)
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