“Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.”
Honore de #Balzac
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Honoré de #Balzac (May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850) wanted to do with the pen what Napoleon had done with the sword.
And in a way, he did. His influence reached #Dostoevsky, Zola, Flaubert, Proust, Dickens, Wilde, and Baldwin. Dostoevsky’s first published book was a Russian translation of Balzac’s Eugénie Grandet.
Pere #Goriot by Honore de Balzac is impossible to put down: emotional, cruel, funny, and painfully human. #Balzac is a master storyteller, a sharp psychologist, and a writer with a wonderful sense of humor.
This is a novel about a father’s love so strong it becomes destructive — proving that even the best intentions can ruin both your life and the lives of those you love most.
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