Ocupation: Novelist
Life: May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850
Birthday: May 20
Death: August 18
There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.
- Honore de Balzac
topic: Sympathy, Pain, Depth, Wince, End Is Near, Consoling