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Less Disappointing Than Life, Great Works Of Art Do Not Begin By Giving Us All Their Best.
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Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us
all their best.
-- Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove
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Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this.
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