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“Good," Helm says. "Find the necessity in your art. If you can find the necessity, you'll never stop doing it, which is of course the only point of art, that it transcends the humdrum." He looks me straight in the eyes. "Art is the least inadequate solution to answering our infinite questions with our finite means.”

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Book:Orphans of Canland
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