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“And what, finally, he felt, understood and enjoyed, sitting there with folded hands, looking into the black slats of the jalousies whence it all issued, was the triumphant idealism of the music, of art, of the human spirit: the high and irrefregable power they had of shrouding with a veil of beauty the vulgar horror of actual fact.”

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