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Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist. Along with Flaubert, he is generally regarded as a founding father of realism in...

Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (31 May 1597 – 18 February 1654) was a French author, best known for his epistolary essays, which were widely circulated and...

complete description of Balzac is that he was a man of business—a man of business in debt. Henry James, in the essay Honoré de Balzac as reprinted in Literary...

but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation. ~ Honoré de Balzac (born 20 May 1799) selected by Kalki 2007 The prevailing tendency to regard...

(English: The Girl With the Golden Eyes) is an 1833 novella by Honoré de Balzac. Transl. Ellen Marriage (1896 edition); Transl. Charlotte Mandell (2011...

Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color-line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls....

medium between a passion and a monomania. Honoré de Balzac, La Grande Bretêche in The Wisdom of Balzac (New York: 1923), p. 24 The dictator does not consider...

we help have no sense of inferiority. Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides in The Wisdom of Balzac (New York: 1923), p. 30 Evil does not approach us...

remembered by what they failed to understand. Impressions and Opinions (1891): "Balzac". Acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it is an art at all. Impressions...

Pistol Hungary is now a small country, but she is, as D. H. Lawrence said of Balzac, a gigantic dwarf, with an interest far beyond her size and the remoteness...

man who works; The man who thinks; The man who does nothing. Honoré de Balzac, Traité de la vie élégante (Treatise on Elegant Life), part I. Généralités...

stories with a feminist perspective. when I abandoned SF, I didn’t abandon Balzac or Borges or Cervantes, but I added the people that interest me: the women...

Parisiennes? Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris came from? Honore de Balzac, Physiologie du Mariage (1827). N. Q. S. 5, IV. 499. V. 195. Go, call a...

amused by others, all the more because they are dull within. Honoré de Balzac, La Peau de chagrin. The very beginning of the soul’s purgation is tranquility...

tache est un vice. A tear is a misfortune, a stain is a vice. Honoré de Balzac, Traité de la vie élégante (Treatise on Elegant Life), part III. Des Choses...

intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth. Honoré de Balzac, ''Les Célibataires (A Bachelor's Establishment), first part was published...

Balsekar, Ramesh Balsillie, Jim Balthasar, von Hans Urs Balzac, Honoré de Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac Bambaataa, Afrika Bamford, Maria Ban, Ki-moon Bánáthy...

structure – elevates or impoverishes subjects. Martorell, Cervantes, Dickens, Balzac, Tolstoy, Conrad, Thomas Mann, that scope and ambition are as important...

abyss, at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." Honoré de Balzac Tara Lewis: "The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond...

Balzac, Civita Vecchia (30 October 1840) Le même esprit ne dure que deux cents ans. Wit lasts no more than two centuries. Letter to Honoré de Balzac (30...