| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 10369 |
| QUOTATION: | The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Albert Camus (19131960), French-Algerian philosopher, author. The Rebel, pt. 4 (1951, trans. 1953). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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