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Surrounded by beakers, by strange coils, By ovens and flasks with twisted necks, The chemist, fathoming the whims of attractions, Artfully imposes on them their precise meetings.
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Tis late; the astronomer in his lonely height Exploring all the dark, descries from far Orbs that like distant isles of splendor are.
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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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Sully Prudhomme
Born:
March 16, 1839
Died:
September 6, 1907
(aged 68)
Bio:
René François Armand Prudhomme was a French poet and essayist. He was the first ever winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901.
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