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Art is a demonstration of which nature is the proof.

— George Sand

L'art est une démonstration dont la nature est la preuve.

Original text (French)

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Notes from Wikiquote

François le Champi, Introduction (1848); Jane Minot Sedgwick (trans.) François the Waif {New York: H. M. Caldwell, 1894) p. 17

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