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Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death...

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The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.

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Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.

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The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable.

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Georges Rodenbach

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Born: July 16, 1855
Died: December 25, 1898 (aged 43)
Bio: Georges Raymond Constantin Rodenbach was a Belgian Symbolist poet and novelist.
Known for:
  1. Bruges-la-Morte (1892)
  2. The Bells of Bruges
  3. La vocation
  4. Georges Rodenbach: Selected Poems
  5. Le règne du silence (1891)

WikipediaGeorges Rodenbach on Wikipedia
Gutenberg ProjectGeorges Rodenbach works on Gutenberg Project

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