"I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict."

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Source : 1824 The Journal of Euge'ne Delacroix (translated by W Pach, 1948), entry for 4 Jun.

Eugene Delacroix

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