# Lost Illusions

- Author: [Honoré de Balzac](https://www.leafyquotes.com/honore-de-balzac.md)
- Quotes: 8
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/honore-de-balzac/lost-illusions

## Quotes

> What is Art, monsieur, but Nature concentrated?

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

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

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

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

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> What is Art, monsieur, but Nature concentrated?

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> 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.

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> 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.

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