Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
Honore de BalzacNeither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.
Honore de BalzacMany people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
Honore de BalzacGenius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.
Honore de Balzac