"The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves?"

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Delsarte tells me that Mozart stole outrageously from Galuppi, in the same way, I suppose, that Molière stole from anybody anywhere, if he found something work taking. I said that what was Mozart had not been stolen from Galuppi, or from anyone else for that matter.

— Eugene Delacroix