The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.


Honore de Balzac

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Be grateful for every moment and every breath.
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The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
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Let your true love be your lifetime treasure and beyond.
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Life is a risk.
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All concepts of making a point is another failure of communication.
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I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
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Knowledge causes depression and a lot of pressure.
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This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
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Be yourself and people will like you.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
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However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secre...
HONORé DE BALZAC
Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair.
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Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influe...
HONORé DE BALZAC
-Хүү минь, чи надад ямар ч өргүй гэж бодож явах эрхийг б�...
HONORé DE BALZAC
No one ought even to desert a woman after throwing her a heap of gold in her distress! He ought to l...
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Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cu...
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely s...
HONORé DE BALZAC
We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.
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A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the ...
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For avarice begins where poverty ends.
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In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tai...
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He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the ...
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Борьба имеет свою прелесть. Бороться - значит жить, пус�...
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Here comes Mamma Vauquerr, fair as a starrr; and strung up like a bunch of carrots. Aren't we suffoc...
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You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch...
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The rout, that dreary review of fashionable fineries, that parade of well-dressed self-infatuations,...
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And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.
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To that point, he had always found the vicomtesse overflowing with friendly politeness, that sweet-f...
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Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.
HONORé DE BALZAC
La Société ne fait-elle pas de l'homme, suivant les milieux où son action se déploie, autant d'h...
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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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Es fehlt uns eben leider nie an Geld für unsere Launen. Wir markten nur um den Preis für nützlich...
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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To me, Slow parenting is about bringing balance into the home. Children need to strive and struggle ...
CARL HONORE
'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be...
CARL HONORE
The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent...
CARL HONORE
Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, gra...
CARL HONORE
Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started...
CARL HONORE
You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. Y...
CARL HONORE
I've teamed up with one of the headmasters at Eton College, and we're spearheading a kind of...
CARL HONORE
Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through ...
CARL HONORE
My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and...
CARL HONORE
The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this messa...
CARL HONORE