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Look at Goethe, at Lamartine and at many others! To depict feelings on this high plane, you must give up the process of minute and insignificant observation which is the bane of the artists of to-day.
Paul Bourget
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Paul Bourget
Age: 83 †
Born: 1852
Born: September 2
Died: 1935
Died: December 25
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