"Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable."

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Honore de Balzac

#Two Quotes #Stupidity Quotes #Assuming Quotes

“Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.”
“I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.”
“I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.”
“To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a more pronounced lack of sensitivity in underestimating (ourselves and others) than in overestimating.”
“I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.”
“I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.”
“When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be.”
“I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to”

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