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Willa Cather, The Selected Letters Quotes: It seems to me that the pleasure one feels in a work of art is just one thing that one does not have to explain.
         

It seems to me that the pleasure one feels in a work of art is just one thing that one does not have to explain.


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It seems to me that the pleasure one feels in a work of art is just one thing that one does not have to explain.
         



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