Gustave Doré (1832-1883) - The Succubus, 1855
Illustration from Honoré de Balzac's "Les Cent Contes drolatiques/Droll Stories"
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There is a whole life in an hour of love.
Honoré de Balzac
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“We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.”
— Honoré de Balzac
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Nessuno osa dire addio all'abitudine. Molti suicidi si sono fermati sulla soglia della morte per il ricordo del caffè dove vanno tutte le sere a giocare la loro partita a domino.
Honoré de Balzac, da "Il cugino Pons", 1847
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I am nearly mad about you, as much as one can be mad: I cannot bring together two ideas that you do not interpose yourself between them. I can no longer think of nothing but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me. As for my heart, there you will always be — very much so. I have a delicious sense of you there. But my God, what is to become of me, if you have deprived me of my reason? This is a monomania which, this morning, terrifies me.
Honoré de Balzac, from 'The 50 Greatest Love Letters of All Time', ed. David H. Lowenherz
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Nessun uomo ha indovinato mai il modo di rivolgere un amichevole consiglio a una donna, tanto meno alla propria (Honoré de Balzac, Piccole miserie della vita coniugale).
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Gustave Doré (1832-1883) - Illustration from Honoré de Balzac's "Les Cent Contes drolatiques", 1855 edition.
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There is a whole life in an hour of love.
Honoré de Balzac
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