"and your decision to leave school, as ill considered as it first appeared to me, can clearly be traced to the afternoon you spent staring at Michaelangelo's unfinished sculptures for the Medici tombs. Who could fail to identify with those figures struggling to free themselves from the stone which gives them substance and at the same time denies them form? All of life for me is contained in those emerging figures- for what is life but a brief assertion of a unique identity between womb and tomb? "
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