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Quotes from Lost Illusions — Honoré de Balzac

1799–1850 France

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Also, they had to forget both their misery and their thought which doubled the misery.

Lost Illusions (1837)

What is Art, monsieur, but Nature concentrated?

Lost Illusions (1837)

Practice spoke its positive language to Theory whose word is always to the Future.

Lost Illusions (1837)

History is of two kinds—there is the official history taught in schools, a lying compilation ad usum delphini; and there is the secret history which deals with the real causes of events—a scandalous chronicle.

Lost Illusions (1837)

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