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The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.
The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.
Approximate author period: c. 1869 AD · industrial
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- Leo Tolstoy
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- Approximate author period: c. 1869 AD · industrial
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