Georges Duhamel, In Defense of Letters (1937), E. Bozman, trans. (1939), p. vii.
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The book is one of the springs of creative individualism, that individualism which, in these uncertain times, remains the guardian angel of human society. For five hundred years the book has been, for the solitary mind, an incomparable instrument of uplift and liberation.
— Georges Duhamel on Individualism
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About Georges Duhamel
Georges Duhamel (June 30, 1884 – April 13, 1966), was a French author.
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