To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
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France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
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Angel of health, did ever you know pain?
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Passion I hate, a spirit does me wrong.
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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
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