"You are not, with Balzac, in the Elysian fields; you are sometimes much rather in the Halls of Eblis. But, if you can only apprehend it, there is always Imagination to guide, relieve, console you; and it is the Imagination of a Titan, if not exactly of a God."
Honoré de Balzac

January 1, 1970

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George Saintsbury in January 1907, p. 145

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