When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man. – Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670

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The majority of writers ought to translate themselves; there are but few thoughts that are born translated, that is, clothed with the power best fitted alike to express and transmit them. What we have in the first instance written for ourselves, should be written a second time for others. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847), Literature. First Section: Literature in Gene
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