"That was the way many things struck me at that time, in England—as reproductions of something that existed primarily in art or literature. It was not the pictures, the poem, the fictive page, that seemed to me like a copy; these things were the originals, and the life of happy and distinguished people was fashioned in their image."

— Henry James, “The Author of Beltraffio”

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