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The Art of Mira
Eduard Manet is a curious personality. As a painter he is an eye, but no hand. The fairy godmother who presided at his birth gave him the primary qualities that an artist must have. But soon the bad fairy came to his bassinet and said, child, you will never go any further. Through my power, I now steal from you the qualities which in the end make the artist. Mira felt an exquisite quivering in her chest as though something had entered it and was expiring there. She felt ashamed at the gap between what Albert Wolf was saying and how the painting made her feel. One cannot feel dignified by it or lifted up by it in any
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