I Refuse The Oration Of

Let Us Study Things That Are No More. It Is Necessary To Understand Them, If Only To Avoid Them.

You Would Have Imagined Her At One Moment A Maniac, At Another A Queen.

He Had, They Said, Tasted In Succession All The Apples Of The Tree Of Knowledge, And, Whether From Hunger Or Disgust, Had Ended By Tasting The Forbidden Fruit.

Is There Not In Every Human Soul A Primitive Spark, A Divine Element, Incorruptible In This World And Immortal In The Next, Which Can Be Developed By Goodness, Kindled, Lit Up, And Made To Radiate, And Which Evil Can Never Entirely Extinguish.

In The Domain Of Art There Is No Light Without Heat.