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  • On fait de la critique quand on ne peut pas faire de l'art, de me"  me qu'on se met mouchard quand on ne peut pas e"  tre soldat. Someone is a critic when he cannot be an artist in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

    - Gustave Flaubert
      Letter to Mme Louise Colet, 22 Oct.

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