• Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.

  Francois René de Chateaubriand
  French poet, writer and politician 1768-1848
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1. conjuncture
2. revolution
3. certain
4. planets
5. appears
6. several

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Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant. by : Francois René de Chateaubriand

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