To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.
Honore de BalzacThe secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.
Honore de BalzacIf those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
Honore de Balzac