The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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You too, my mother, read my rhymes
For love of unforgotten times,
And you may chance to hear once more
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