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Literature is the expression of society.

Charles Nodier

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Charles Nodier
Age: 63 †
Born: 1780
Born: April 29
Died: 1844
Died: January 27
Author
Entomologist
Journalist
Lexicographer
Librarian
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Translator
Writer
Besac
Jean Charles Emmanuel Nodier
Expression
Literature
Society

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After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public the innocent richness of thought which we have acquired by the culture of letters.
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