Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person
sees.
-- Marcel Proust, Maxims
sees.
-- Marcel Proust, Maxims
Related:
- We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a
journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel... - A catherdral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as
high as we had hoped.
Marcel... - Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us
all their best.
Marcel Proust, Within a Budding... - It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.
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Marcel... - SAN FRANCISCO:
Marcel Proust editing an issue of Penthouse... - Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in The Holiday Season,
that very special time of year when we join with our... - An absence, the decline of a dinner invitation, an unintentional coldness,
can accomplish more than all the cosmetics and beautiful... - All changes, even the most longed for, have their
melancholy;
for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves... - It's all so painfully empty and lonesome... I don't think I can stand
any more of it.
the whole dreadful way we are born, die, and are never...
