The greatest thing the human soul can do in this world is to... - Théophile Gautier

This quote is attributed to Théophile Gautier.

"The greatest thing the human soul can do in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain sentence"

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Poet Novelist French 1811–1872

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