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“The most joyful thing I know is the peace, the silence that one enjoys in the woods or on the tilled lands.”
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“If you could see how beautiful the forest is! I sometimes slip away there at days end after my work day and I always return overwhelmed. It has such a calm, such a terrible grandeur, to the point that I am surprised that I feel genuinely afraid. I don't know what the trees says amongst themselves, but they say something we don't speak the same language.”
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“I want to put strongly and completely all that is necessary, for things weakly said might as well not be said at all.”
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“Oh, how I wish I could make those who see my work feel the splendors and terrors of the night! One ought to be able to make people hear the songs, the silences, and murmurings of the air. They should feel the infinite.”
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