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QUOTATION:Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single refusal, and he is cast out of the state of grace and becomes sinful all the way through.
ATTRIBUTION:Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), German poet. Letter, October 23, 1907, to his wife. Rilke’s Letters on Cézanne (1952, trans. 1985).
 
 
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