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Un grand homme de province à Paris

Honoré de Balzac Original title Un grand homme de province à Paris (French, 1836)

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“What is Art, monsieur, but Nature concentrated?”

Qu'est-ce que l'Art, monsieur?C'est la Nature concentrée.
Illusions perdues http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Un_grand_homme_de_province_%C3%A0_Paris, vol I: Un grand homme de province à Paris, 1re partie [Lost Illusions, vol. I: A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, part I] (1839), translated by Ellen Marriage, ch. I, section 5.

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“Also, they had to forget both their misery and their thought which doubled the misery.”

Part II: Un grand Homme de province à Paris (A Great Man of the Provinces in Paris).
Lost Illusions (1837-1843)
Original: (fr) Aussi tous avaient-ils besoin d'oublier et leur malheur et leur pensée qui doublait le malheur.

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