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  • This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

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    William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “Views and reviews; essays in appreciation: I. Literature. II. Art”
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This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence. - William Ernest Henley
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