To depict the mortal so that he takes on immortality—that is the task of the artist.
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soul-animating influence
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: I do not wish to aggravate the gravity of the charge in the slightest by any rhetoric or by an unconscious overstatement;
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his wife was a highfalutin' pretentious creature whose pride was as extravagant as her reputation founded on second-rate verse-making
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the names given to him seem to reveal the Nationalist sympathies and pride of his mother.
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He was then, as he remained for some years after, extremely boyish in nature, very mobile, almost restless when out of the schoolroom. Yet
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"Even as a schoolboy he was an excellent talker: his descriptive power being far above the average, and his humorous exaggerations of school occurrences always highly amusing.
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"The romances that impressed him most when at school were Disraeli's novels. He spoke slightingly of Dickens as a novelist. . . . .
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power of twisting his limbs into weird contortions being very great.
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As early as I can remember I used to identify myself with every distinguished character I read about,