Human life is a sad show, undoubtedly: ugly, heavy and complex. Art has no other end, for people of feeling, than to conjure away the burden and bitterness.
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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Amelie Bosquet. July 1864.
Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Amelie Bosquet. July 1864.
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