Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.
Honore de BalzacNature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.
Honore de BalzacIn Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.
Honore de Balzac