"What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined."
"Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message."
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Source: Vernon Lee (1909). “Renaissance fancies & studies”
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