Henri Peyre
Henri Maurice Peyre was a French-born American linguist, literary scholar and Sterling Professor of French Emeritus at Yale University.
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Trending topics shown first"The primary condition for being sincere is the same as for being humble: not to boast of it, and probably not even to be aware of it."
"There is only one type of decadence which is dangerous in art and literature, and unfortunately critics seldom scourge it as it deserves: it consists in being conventional and imitative, in tritely ex…"
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