Started Reading: Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac 📚
This may be the best near opening to a book I have read in a long time:
“After reading about the secret misfortunes of Pere Goriot, you will eat your dinner with relish, blaming the author for your insensibility, charging him with exaggeration, accusing him of poetic license, but let me tell you, this drama is not fiction or romance. All is true. So true that everyone can recognize its elements in his own circle, perhaps in his own heart.”