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.

Car la vie humaine est une triste boutique, décidément. – Une chose laide, lourde & compliquée. L'art n'a point d'autre but, pr les gens d'esprit, que d'en escamotter le fardeau & l'amertume.

Gustave Flaubert

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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Amelie Bosquet. July 1864.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Mademoiselle Leroyer de Chantepie. c. 1840.

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If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

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Lincoln, Abraham. Letter to Albert G. Hodges. 4 Apr. 1864.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "To Albert G. Hodges, April 4, 1864." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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