- Algernon Charles Swinburne
(04/05/1837 – 04/10/1909)
English writer, describing part of France
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"A calcined, scalped, rasped, scraped, flayed, broiled, powdered, leprous, blotched, mangy, grimy, parboiled country without trees, water, grass, fields ... it is infinitely liker hell than earth, and one looks for tails among the people."
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"You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?"
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"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live."
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"When you were quite a little boy, somebody ought
to have said "hush" just once."
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"It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste."
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