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"Father Goriot" - Honoré de Balzac #characterdesign #honoredebalzac #fathergoriot #leperegoriot #frenchliterature #literature #littératurefrançaise #balzac #paris #19thcentury https://www.instagram.com/p/B_PWdCGKnYg/?igshid=1kohqczer1iog

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«"Public opinion may blame me, but I care nothing for public opinion. Just now I have other and much more important matters to think about than the things that fools and chatterers may say about me."» (from Father Goriot, trans. Ellen Marriage) ~ «All human power is a compound of time and patience. Powerful beings will and wait...» (from Eugénie Grandet, Chapter VI, K. P. Wormeley) ~ #BornOnThisDay: #HonoréDeBalzac (Honoré Balzac, 1799-1850), French novelist, playwright and short-story writer who, along with Flaubert, was generally considered one of the founders of realism in European literature, whose novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus. ~ Best-known works: • The Wild Ass's Skin [La Peau de chagrin] (1831, novel, from Études philosophiques of La Comédie humaine) • Eugénie Grandet (1833, novel, from Scènes de la vie de province of La Comédie humaine) • Father Goriot/Old Goriot [Le Père Goriot] (1835, novel, from Scènes de la vie privée of La Comédie humaine) • Lost Illusions [Illusions perdues] (1837-43, novel, from Scènes de la vie de province of La Comédie humaine) • Cousin Bette [La Cousine Bette] (1846, novel, from Scènes de la vie parisienne of La Comédie humaine) ~ «"Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own. It is something that I cannot explain, something within that sends a glow of warmth all through you."» (from Father Goriot, trans. Ellen Marriage) ~ #birthday #Balzac #FatherGoriot #LePèreGoriot #LePereGoriot #PereGoriot #EugenieGrandet #EugénieGrandet #CousinBette #LostIllusions #IllusionsPerdues #LaPeauDeChagrin #LeChefDoeuvreInconnu #LaComédieHumaine #book #books #bookstagram #novel #bibliophile #reading #read #booklove #bookoftheday #instabook #literature #booktube #bookworm #epic https://www.instagram.com/p/BxrjEAvBiMC/?igshid=1c9phcd210uvy