Quote by: Herculine Barbin

You are to be pitied more than I, perhaps. I soar above all your innumerable miseries, partaking of the nature of the angels; for, as you have said, my place is not in your narrow sphere. You have the earth, I have boundless space. Enchained here below by the thousand bonds of your gross, material senses, your spirits cannot plunge into that limpid Ocean of the infinite, where, lost for a day upon your arid shores, my soul drinks deep.


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  • NameHerculine Barbin
  • DescriptionFrench writer
  • Born1838
  • Died1868
  • CountryFrance