“ The heart of a girl whose life is wretched and unhappy is a sponge that will thirstily absorb love ”
Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot (1835). copy citation
Author | Honoré de Balzac |
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Source | Father Goriot |
Topic | love heart |
Date | 1835 |
Language | English |
Reference | |
Note | Translated by Ellen Marriage |
Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1237/1237-h/1237-h.htm |
Context
“said Rastignac, eagerly interrupting Vautrin’s speech.
“Next to nothing,” returned the other, with a slight involuntary movement, the suppressed exultation of the angler when he feels a bite at the end of his line. “Follow me carefully! The heart of a girl whose life is wretched and unhappy is a sponge that will thirstily absorb love; a dry sponge that swells at the first drop of sentiment. If you pay court to a young girl whose existence is a compound of loneliness, despair, and poverty, and who has no suspicion that she will come into a fortune, good Lord!”
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