I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
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Nothing can be done except little by little.
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
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The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.
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