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Quotation from Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot) by Honoré de Balzac

“Henceforth there is war between us.”

Honoré de Balzac (spoken by Rastignac)

Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot), Final paragraphs, Père-Lachaise, trans. Ellen Marriage (1896)

Portrait of Honoré de Balzac

From the height of the cemetery Rastignac looks down on the world he wants to conquer and throws down the glove to Paris.

Citation: "Henceforth there is war between us." — Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot), Final paragraphs, Père-Lachaise, trans. Ellen Marriage (1896). (id balzac-father-goriot-q8)

Portrait: Honoré de Balzac (1842) detail, Louis-Auguste Bisson, Public domain.

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