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But hands are a complicated organism, a delta in which much life from distant sources flows together and is poured into the great stream of action. Hands have a history of their own, they have, indeed, their own civilization, their special beauty; we concede to them their right to have their own development, their own wishes, feelings, moods and favourite occupations.

— The Rodin-Book [First Part, 1903]

And not only in the famous works of art and in those visible from afar did this quality of life exist; the unnoticed, the small, the nameless, and superfluous were no less filled with this deep inner vitality, with the rich and amazing restless of life. Even the tranquility, where there was tranquility, was composed of hundreds upon hundreds of moments of motion keeping each other in equilibrium.

Some Reflections on Dolls
(Occasioned by the wax dolls of Lotte Pritzel)