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As routine business must always be dispatched, there is always a fluctuating number of supernumeraries who cannot be dispensed with, and yet are liab… - Honoré de Balzac
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As routine business must always be dispatched, there is always a fluctuating number of supernumeraries who cannot be dispensed with, and yet are liable to dismissal at a moment's notice. All of these naturally are anxious to be "established clerks." And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pigmies, came into the world. Possibly Napoleon retarded its influence for a time, for all things and all men were forced to bend to his will; but none the less the heavy curtain of Bureaucracy was drawn between the right thing to be done and the right man to do it. Bureaucracy was definitely organized, however, under a constitutional government with a natural kindness for mediocrity, a predilection for categorical statements and reports, a government as fussy and meddlesome, in short, as a small shopkeeper's wife.
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About Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist. Along with Flaubert, he is generally regarded as a founding father of realism in European literature.
Biography information from Wikiquote · Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons, Louis-Auguste Bisson (Public domain / CC0)
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Horace de Saint-Aubin
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Lord R’Hoone
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Viellerglé
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Saint Aubin
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Balzac
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Horace de Saint- Aubin
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Onoreh deh Balzaḳ
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Lord R'Hoone
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Ônôrē de Balzaq
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Jeune ceélibataire
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Onore de Balzak
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Honorato De Balzac
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H. Balzak
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Honoreé De Balzac
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H. Balzac
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Horace de S.- Aubin
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Honoriusz Balzac
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Un Jeune ceélibataire
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Lord O'Rhoone
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Ūnūrīh dī Balzāk
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R'Hoone
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Onore de Bal'zak
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Hônôrê đơ Banzăc
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Honore de Balzak
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de. Balzac
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Honorato Balzac
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Honoré de Balsac
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Honoreé de Balzac
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Baruzakku
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Honoriusz. Balzac
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Onore Balzéak
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Instituteur Matricante
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Honoryusz. Balzac
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Saint Aubin de Poitiers
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... o ilk günden beri güneş daha az sıcak, daha az aydınlık, gece daha karanlık oldu; hareket hızını yitirdi, düşüncelere bir ağırlık geldi. Bazı insanları toprağa gömeriz, ama öyle insanlar vardır ki onların kefenleri yüreğimiz olmuştur, anıları her gün kalbimizin çarpışıyla beraberdir, soluk alır gibi onları düşünürüz, aşka özgü bir ruh titreşiminin tatlı yasasıyla varlığımıza sinmişlerdir. Bir ruh var ruhumda. Ben bir iyilik mi ettim, güzel bir söz mü söyledim, içimde bulunan o ruh hareket ediyor, konuşuyor; havaya yayılan güzel kokunun bir zambaktan gelişi gibi.
To saunter is a science; it is the gastronomy of the eye. To take a walk is to vegetate; to saunter is to live… To saunter is to enjoy life; it is to indulge the flight of fancy; it is to enjoy the sublime pictures of misery, of love, of joy, of gracious or grotesque physiognomies; it is to pierce with a glance the abysses of a thousand existences; for the young it is to desire all, and to possess all; for the old it is to live the life of the youthful, and to share their passions.
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