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Quote by Joseph Conrad, in describing the characteristics of an artist, which I wanted to share:

His appeal is made to our less obvious capacities: to that part of our nature which, because of the warlike conditons of existence, is necessarily kept out of sight within the more resisting and hard qualities--like the vulnerable body within a steel armor....The artist appeals…to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition--and, therefore, moer permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation—to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity that knits together the loneliness of innumerable hearts, to the solidarity…which binds together all humanity—the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.