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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.
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We are convinced that the great writers have told their own story in their works. One only truly describes one's own heart by attributing it to another, and the greater part of genius is composed of memories.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
September 4, 1768
Died:
July 4, 1848
(aged 79)
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