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“The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.”
A man is the history of his breaths and thoughts, acts, atoms and wounds, love, indifference and dislike;
His taste, that was his passion, brought him then
For the difference between poets and novelists is this—that the former write for the life of the language—and the latter write for the betterment of the world.