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Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy

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. – Vicomte De Chateaubriand

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