One of the proud joys of the man of letters -- if that man of letters is an artist -- is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory.

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Edmond and Jules De Goncourt: "One of the proud joys of the man of letters -- if that man of letters is an artist -- is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory."

Edmond and Jules De Goncourt's Quotations

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Anything	Artist	Chooses	Conscious
Creates	Creative	Divinity	Feel
Fictional	Himself	Imagination	Immortalize
Impression	Insignificant	Joys	Letters
Lives	Living	Make	Memory
Possessing	Power	Profound	Proud
Though	Within	Worlds

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One of the proud joys of the man of letters -- if that man of letters is an artist -- is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory. - Edmond and Jules De Goncourt