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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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We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
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Georges Rodenbach

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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