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“The painter stood entranced before the work which he had wrought;... he grew tremulous and ... crying with a loud voice, This is indeed Life itself! turned suddenly to regard his beloved:MShe was dead!”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)
“The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stood there from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.”
—William James (18421910)
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