Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

Chaque fleur est une âme à la Nature éclose;

Gerard de Nerval

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Flowers

Author

Gerard de Nerval

Source

Golden Lines

Medium

Poem

Language

French

Time

1843 1840s 19th century

Occupation

Writer

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France Europe

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Citation

Nerval, Gerard De. Vers Dores. c. 1843, l. 8.

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Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within the solitude of his own heart.

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Source
Democracy in America
Genre
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Language
French
Time
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Original Citation

Tocqueville, Alexis De. De La Democratie en Amerique [Democracy in America]. Vol. 2, London: Saunders and Otley, 1840, sect. 2, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Tocqueville, Alexis De. Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II, translated by Henry Reeve. Bantam Classics, 2000, vol. 2, sect. 2, ch. 2.

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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Albert Camus

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Human nature Being oneself Authenticity The human condition

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Albert Camus
Source
The Rebel
Genre
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Language
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Time
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