The comedie Humaine

You have too much wit. You do not need too much to be happy.
He is the victim of his work than any fanatical readers, whose dream is to compete with the civil records.
Attached to the real life, not unreal life.
Let us go back to reality.

Two strengths of Balzac's genius.
One is his vision, second is his philosophical trend.
Complete: taking his character at birth and leaving him at death.
The inner workings of their corporeal mechanism is no mystery for him. From comedy to sincerity.
He knows when a sentiment is simple and when it is complex when the heart is a dupe of the mind and when of the senses.
With me observation has become intuitive from early youth.
Their desires, their needs, all pass into my soul.

It was the dream of a man awakened.
He desired like Moliere become a profound philosopher first of all, a comedy writers afterwards.
The great social forces ended their work.