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<p>[QUOTE="Debora, post: 9498777, member: 1476"]Thought so... "Despair of genius" is a quote. </p><p><br /></p><p>From the internet: <i><font size="4">"André Chénier, the original of whatever is truest to nature and genuine passion, in the modern poetry of France, died by the guillotine, July 27, 1794. In ascending the scaffold, he cried, 'To die so young!' 'And there was something here!' he added, striking his forehead, not in the fear of death, but the despair of genius!"</font></i></p><p><i><font size="4"><br /></font></i></p><p><font size="4">Debora</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Debora, post: 9498777, member: 1476"]Thought so... "Despair of genius" is a quote. From the internet: [I][SIZE=4]"André Chénier, the original of whatever is truest to nature and genuine passion, in the modern poetry of France, died by the guillotine, July 27, 1794. In ascending the scaffold, he cried, 'To die so young!' 'And there was something here!' he added, striking his forehead, not in the fear of death, but the despair of genius!" [/SIZE][/I] [SIZE=4]Debora[/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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