“All I foretold has now come true: neglect and poverty and wretched solitude. But he goes on fighting the hypocrites of every sort; exposing the sham nobles, the sham priests, sham heroes, shameless prudes and plagiarists, in short, the world we know! And each attack wins him the malice of new enemies.”

“All I foretold has now come true: neglect and poverty and wretched solitude. But he goes on fighting the hypocrites of every sort; exposing the sham nobles, the sham priests, sham heroes, shameless prudes and plagiarists, in short, the world we know! And each attack wins him the malice of new enemies.”

— Edmond Rostand