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Arthur Schopenhauer

“The art lies in setting the inner life into the most violent motion with the smallest possible expenditure of outer life; for it is the inner life which is the real object of our interest - The task of the novelist is not to narrate great events but to make small ones interesting.”

Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
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