"Quantity and intensity are at once and together his sign."
— Honoré de Balzac

January 1, 1970

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Henry James, "The Lesson of Balzac" (1905), as quoted in The Literature 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All Time (2008) by Daniel S. Burt, p. 148