“Glory is the sun of the dead.”

— Honoré de Balzac

La gloire est le soleil des morts. La Recherche de l'Absolu http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Recherche_de_l%E2%80%99Absolu [The Quest of the Absolute] (1834), translated by Ellen Marriage.

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