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“Virtue is the adherence in action to the nature of things, and the nature of things makes it prevalent. It consists in a perpetual substitution of being for seeming, and with sublime propriety God is described as saying, I A.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simpleto discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.”
—Craig Raine (b. 1944)
“What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by the inner force of its style, as the earth without support is held in the aira book that would have almost no subject or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible.”
—Gustave Flaubert (18211880)
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