• Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

  Francoise Sagan
  French writer 1935-2004
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1. literature
2. amorphous
3. exactly
4. formal

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Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal. by : Francoise Sagan

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