"Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry."

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“When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.”

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“Men do not change; they unmask themselves.”

“Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.”

“Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.”

“Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.”

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