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Quotation from Christ Legends by Selma Lagerlöf
“What would happen to any one of us who undertook to compete with one who paints with sunbeams and blows the breath of life into dead clay?”
Christ Legends, In Nazareth, trans. Velma Swanston Howard (1908)
Mary comforts the weeping Judas after Jesus' clay birds fly away.
Citation: "What would happen to any one of us who undertook to compete with one who paints with sunbeams and blows the breath of life into dead clay?" — Selma Lagerlöf, Christ Legends, In Nazareth, trans. Velma Swanston Howard (1908). (id christ-legends-q6)
Portrait: Atelje Jaeger - Selma Lagerlöf 1928, Atelier Jaeger, Public domain.
