The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of fr…

Virginia Woolf
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The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent...there must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed.
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