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Quote by Honoré de Balzac
English (Source)
Those poor people whose lives lack love, and who spend the best hours of their youth in soul-killing work, only they know the secret of the rapid destruction that a great passion brings about in their suppressed, misunderstood souls. They are so sure of the correctness of their choice, they waste all the strength of their souls on the woman they have fallen in love with so suddenly that they experience beautiful excitements near her, often without arousing the same in her. This flatters the selfishness of women best if they are able to recognize this apparent immobility of passion and the latent passion that comes from so deep that it takes time to rise to the surface. These unfortunate floats are hermits in the heart of Paris, they experience all the pleasures of hermit life and it happens that they cannot resist its temptations; but even more often they fall victim to disappointment, betrayal, and misrepresentation and they rarely get to pluck the fruit of this love, which for them always means a flower falling from the sky.