"Perhaps it would have been possible to see……" — W. Somerset Maugham
"Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself to the agonies of the damned...undaunted by failure, by an unceasing effort of courage holding despair at bay, doggedly persistent in the face of self-doubt, which is the artist's bitterest enemy..."
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W. Somerset Maugham
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