“ A woman's errors come almost always from her belief in good or her confidence in truth. ”
Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet (1834). copy citation
Author | Honoré de Balzac |
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Source | Eugénie Grandet |
Topic | belief confidence |
Date | 1834 |
Language | English |
Reference | |
Note | Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley |
Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A9nie_Grandet |
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“They walk there bathed in a celestial light shed from their own souls, which reflects its rays upon their lover; they color all with the flame of their own emotion and attribute to him their highest thoughts. A woman's errors come almost always from her belief in good or her confidence in truth. In Eugenie's simple heart the words, "My dear Annette, my loved one," echoed like the sweetest language of love; they caressed her soul as, in childhood, the divine notes of the Venite adoremus, repeated by the organ, caressed her ear.”
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