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Honoré Balzac

Colonel Chabert

  • Johanna Ivanova de Mendozaцитирапреди 10 години
    I have seen a father die in a garret, deserted by two daughters, to whom he had given forty thousand francs a year!
  • Johanna Ivanova de Mendozaцитирапреди 10 години
    And they wear black robes, perhaps because they are in mourning for every virtue and every illusion.
  • Johanna Ivanova de Mendozaцитирапреди 10 години
    "Not Chabert! not Chabert! My name is Hyacinthe," replied the veteran. "I am no longer a man, I am No. 164, Room 7," he
  • Johanna Ivanova de Mendozaцитирапреди 10 години
    "there are in modern society three men who can never think well of the world—the priest, the doctor, and the man of law?
  • Johanna Ivanova de Mendozaцитирапреди 10 години
    "Yes, it is there, deep and sincere. But what can the unfortunate do? They live, and that is all."
  • Johanna Ivanova de Mendozaцитирапреди 10 години
    but as soon as a man has fallen into the hands of justice, he is no more than a moral entity, a matter of law or of fact, just as to statists he has become a zero.
  • Johanna Ivanova de Mendozaцитирапреди 10 години
    Colonel Chabert, to acknowledge yourself an imposter, to sacrifice your honor, and live a lie every hour of the day!
  • Johanna Ivanova de Mendozaцитирапреди 10 години
    "If some men have died to save a mistress' honor, they gave their life but once. But in this case you would be giving your life every day. No, no. It is impossible. If it were only your life, it would be nothing; but to sign a declaration that you are not
  • Johanna Ivanova de Mendozaцитирапреди 10 години
    "I must return underground again. I had told myself so already."
  • Johanna Ivanova de Mendozaцитирапреди 10 години
    "The dead are very wrong to come to life again."
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