"... In fashioning a work of art we are by no means free, we do not choose how we shall make it but ... it pre-exists us and therefore we are obliged, since it is both necessary and hidden, to do what we should have to do if it were a law of nature –– that is to say, to discover it."
–– Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French writer and critic
via: Commonplace Book 2006-2009, 2008, p. 152.
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