Lost Illusions

What is Art, monsieur, but Nature concentrated?

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

Practice spoke its positive language to Theory whose word is always to the Future.

History is of two kinds—there is the official history taught in schools, a lying compilation ad usum delphini; and there is the secret history which deals with the real causes of events—a scandalous chronicle.