I would accept neither his fame nor his fortune
Never meet your heroes
French poet Charles Baudelaire was eighteen when he wrote the first of these two letters—a gushing tribute to his literary hero, Victor Hugo. Awestruck and eager, he poured out his admiration, desperate to express how profoundly Hugo’s work had …
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