What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
E. M. Forster
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- To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
- Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
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- The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.