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Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart.

Marcel Proust, whom I’ve quoted before, cited by Alain de Botton, whom I’ve also mentioned a few times. This is a great distillation of the redemptive power of art: imaginatively turning anguish into thought can be a means not merely to some sort of wisdom but also to overcoming suffering. This is true of any real value system.

Perhaps when Murdoch says art can be a “false shortcut” she means that art cannot replace suffering; it can help redeem grief, but those who seek art instead of experience, for fear of grief or timidity, gain nothing but a pose.

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