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I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right.


Carl Honore

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HONORE DE BALZAC Wit needs leisure, and certain inequalities of position
HONORE DE BALZAC It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is n...
HONORE DE BALZAC Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
HONORE DE BALZAC They must have the defects of their qualities.
HONORE DE BALZAC In a husband there is only a man; in a married woman there is a man, a father, and mother, and a wom...
HONORE DE BALZAC Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
HONORE DE BALZAC Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
HONORE DE BALZAC Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
HONORE DE BALZAC Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soa...
HONORE DE BALZAC Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman&...
HONORE DE BALZAC Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give...
HONORE DE BALZAC A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way...
HONORE DE BALZAC Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief
HONORE DE BALZAC A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
HONORE DE BALZAC Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being at ease with yourself
HONORE DE BALZAC They ended as all great passions do end-----by a misunderstanding...
HONORE DE BALZAC To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer
HONORE DE BALZAC When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give...
HONORE DE BALZAC Vocations which we wanted to pursue, and didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
HONORE DE BALZAC A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness
HONORE DE BALZAC Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts
HONORE DE BALZAC Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devo...
HONORE DE BALZAC It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist...
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