| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 5496 |
| QUOTATION: | To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one’s vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850), French novelist. The Physiology of Marriage, Meditation Number III, Canel (1829).
Balzac’s generalizations about strolling. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Balzac Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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