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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims, p.153, Harvard University Press
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