Honore de Balzac Quotes About Talent
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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
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The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.
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If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.
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A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.
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When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.
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