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Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand (1768 – 1848)


French writer, politician and diplomat, considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature.
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J'ai pleuré et j'ai cru.
Chateaubriand quotes
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
Chateaubriand
Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.




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