"Art is that imaginative expression of human energy, which, through technical concretion of feeling and perception, tends to reconcile the individual with the universal, by exciting in him impersonal emotion. And the greatest Art is that which excites the greatest impersonal emotion in an hypothecated perfect human being."
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John Galsworthy
1906 β 1921
John Galsworthy OM (14 August 1867 β 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906β1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1932.
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