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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e9ae4ad | Curiosity is a sort of gluttony. To see is to devour. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 7555aff | Enjolras caught glimpses of a luminous uprising under the dark skirts of the future. | revolution | Victor Hugo | |
| e0b04ac | Formerly (it had begun almost from childhood and kept growing till full maturity), whenever he had tried to do something that would be good for everyone, for mankind, for Russia, for the district, for the whole village, he had noticed that thinking about it was pleasant, but the doing itself was always awkward, there was no full assurance that the thing was absolutely necessary, and the doing itself, which at the start had seemed so big, ke.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| e755308 | He spoke with such self-confidence that his hearers could not be sure whether what he said was very witty or very stupid. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| cb2b282 | This foolish smile he could not forgive himself. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 95948ef | I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new either in me or in him; and that, on the contrary, we kept going back as it were on what was old. | marriage old-habits relationships stagnant | Leo Tolstoy | |
| a8789ca | He had committed no evil action, but, what was far worse than an evil action, he had entertained evil thoughts, whence evil actions proceed. An evil action may not be repeated, and can be repented of; but evil thoughts generate all evil actions. An evil action only smooths the path for other evil acts; evil thoughts uncontrollably drag one along that path. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| acb446c | We exchanged disagreeable remarks. The impression of this first quarrel was terrible. I say quarrel, but the term is inexact. It was the sudden discovery of the abyss that had been dug between us. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| d258a93 | There was no solution, but that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble. That answer is: one must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 66e4c9b | But neither of them dared speak of it, and not having expressed the one thing that occupied their thoughts, whatever they said rang false. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| bdfca22 | La flatterie n'emane jamais des grandes ames, elle est l'apanage des petits esprits qui reussissent a se rapetisser encore pour mieux entrer dans la sphere vitale de la personne autour de laquelle ils gravitent. La flatterie sous-entend un interet. (p.239/317) | flaterie | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 5dd5c14 | Happy?" asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. "Ah, you do not know what it is to be condemned to a life of pleasure." | happiness loneliness love pleasure relationships sadness sorrow | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 3693fab | I haven't any objection to your thoroughly despising me, right now, because I'm convinced you'll come to love me. You'll find I have some tremendous abysses, some huge, focused emotions that fools think of as vices, but you'll never find me lazy, and you'll never find me ungrateful. In a word, I'm neither a pawn nor a bishop, my young friend, but a castle. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| a13ca63 | Trust no one until you are very sure of the heart to which you open your heart. Learn to mistrust every one; take every precaution for the sake of the love which does not exist as yet. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 71a98d4 | Notre conscience est un juge infaillible, quand nous ne l'avons pas encore assassinee. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 96c7a32 | o ilk gunden beri gunes daha az sicak, daha az aydinlik, gece daha karanlik oldu; hareket hizini yitirdi, dusuncelere bir agirlik geldi. Bazi insanlari topraga gomeriz, ama oyle insanlar vardir ki onlarin kefenleri yuregimiz olmustur, anilari her gun kalbimizin carpisiyla beraberdir, soluk alir gibi onlari dusunuruz, aska ozgu bir ruh titresiminin tatli yasasiyla varligimiza sinmislerdir. Bir ruh var ruhumda. Ben bir iyilik mi ettim, guzel .. | quote vadideki-zambak | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 3974f6d | Epouses nous sommes trahies. Amantes, nous sommes delaissees. | Balzac Honoré de | ||
| 8d4a3b5 | The faint hints of color in her complexion, her tawny blond hair, her extraordinary thinness, all spoke of that unearthly grace modern poets find in the medieval statues. Had she been happy, she'd have been ravishing: happiness constitutes pure poetry, for women. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 5bf8563 | To that point, he had always found the vicomtesse overflowing with friendly politeness, that sweet-flowing grace conferred by an aristocratic education, and which is never truly there unless it comes, automatically and unthinkingly, straight from the heart. [...] For anyone who had learned the social code, and Rastignac had absorbed it all in a flash, these words, that gesture, that look, that inflection in her voice, summed up all there wa.. | character hypocrisy kind kindness people personality ties | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 783002a | Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger.. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 20d8c42 | Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublie, parce qu'il a ete proprement fait. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| e59fe9f | Was she acting entirely consciously? No: women are always sincere, even in the midst of their most shocking duplicities, because it is always some natural emotion which dominates them. Perhaps, having given this young man such a hold on her, by having openly demonstrated her affection for him, Delphine was merely responding to a sense of personal dignity, which led her either to revoke any concessions she might have made or, at least, to en.. | duplicities future heart love passion pretend sincerity test | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 96c29e1 | no v etom otnoshenii g-zha Voke imela skhodstvo so mnogimi liud'mi, kotorye ne doveriaiut svoim blizkim i otdaiutsia v ruki pervogo vstrechnogo, -- strannoe psikhologicheskoe iavlenie, no ono fakt, i ego korni netrudno otyskat' v samoi chelovecheskoi dushe. Byt' mozhet, nekotorye liudi ne v sostoianii nichem sniskat' raspolozhenie tekh, s kem oni zhivut, i, obnaruzhiv pered nimi vsiu pustotu svoei dushi, chuvstvuiut, chto okruzhaiushchie vt.. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 80223b2 | one can no more hinder criticism than the use of eyes, tongues, and judgment. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| d1990f0 | Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair. | judith mistress vice virtue wife women | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 6fa5f73 | Life is a business transaction. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 36f1dda | Quand les enfants commencent a voir, ils sourient; quand une jeune fille entrevoit le sentiment dans la nature, elle sourit comme elle souriait enfant. Si la lumiere est le premier amour de la vie, l'amour n'est-il pas la lumiere du coeur? | honoré-de-balzac | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 8d9a75d | So, my dear fellow, if I don't believe in God, I believe still less in man. | faith humanity-and-society | Honoré de Balzac | |
| d742511 | Forgive the cliche, but friends are truly the family you choose. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| ca65be2 | But there's always a chance she's hiding a flask and a Nixon-esque Enemies List in her pinafore apron, which is exactly why we're such good friends. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| bdf841b | The origin of the caste system, formulated by the great legislator Manu, was admirable. He saw clearly that men are distinguished by natural evolution into four great classes: those capable of offering service to society through their bodily labor (Sudras); those who serve through mentality, skill, agriculture, trade, commerce, business life in general (Vaisyas); those whose talents are administrative, executive, and protective-rulers and w.. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 1a3ce23 | Except for thinking up reasons I'm allowed to skip the gym, my schedule is almost totally empty. (Today's reason is because I have a cold. Yesterday's was the dogs seemed sad. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 5d75e67 | I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 1c17542 | I feel like my takeaway from tonight is that it's okay to love shitty television, provided that you make an effort to appreciate other kinds of entertainment. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 53396af | It is not hard to make money in the market. What is hard to avoid is the alluring temptation to throw your money away on short, get-rich-quick speculative binges. It is an obvious lesson, but one frequently ignored. | Burton G. Malkiel | ||
| 5ab80f7 | A master bestows the divine experience of cosmic consciousness when his disciple, by meditation, has strengthened his mind to a degree where the vast vistas would not overwhelm him. Mere intellectual willingness or open-mindedness is not enough. Only adequate enlargement of consciousness by yoga practice and devotional bhakti can prepare one to absorb the liberating shock of omnipresence. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 020028f | Heavenly Father, my body cells are made of light, my fleshly cells are made of Thee. They are Spirit, for Thou art Spirit; they are immortal, for Thou art Life. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 5d4f79f | To create a life is to create a life out of the materials that history has given you. | Kwame Anthony Appiah | ||
| 9c75d93 | The story begins like so much else,' she says slowly, 'With hope. Hope and dreams and daring... | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 098d3dd | Most people couldn't be rich if they wanted to be honest; most people couldn't be honest if they wanted to be rich. | honesty integrity money rich | Margaret Peterson Haddix | |
| 316433d | The optimist believes that bad events have specific causes, while good events will enhance everything he does; the pessimist believes that bad events have universal causes and that good events are caused by specific factors. When | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| b541506 | So, you never can tell what will happen when you learn to play the harmonica. | harmonica self-expression | Robert McCloskey | |
| 36d45b4 | Not even generals can stop the rain. | influence sovereignty-of-god | Jeff Shaara | |
| 0241d34 | Quick words did not always mean a quick mind. | impatience self-discipline | Jeff Shaara |