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“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Beauty to her, as to all who have felt, lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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