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Quote by William Faulkner
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by art

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. – William Faulkner

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