About Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac ( BAL-zak, also US: BAWL-; French: [ɔnɔʁe d(ə) balzak]; born Honoré Balzac; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
More quotations from Honoré de Balzac
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
More quotations tagged with “painting”
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.
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