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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.

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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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