Charles Péguy

A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

– Charles Péguy –

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