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«People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.»
«Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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Art
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aspects, judgments, re-create, re-created, re-creation, recreate, recreates, recreating, represent, selective, value judgment
«Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.»
«Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.»
«That translucent alabaster of our memories.»
«Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.»
«The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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absurdity, direct, Direct proportion, fixity, proportion
«There is nothing like desire for preventing the thing one says from bearing any resemblance to what one has in one's mind»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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bearing, bear in mind, preventing, resemblance, Thing one
«Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.»
«The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which have become permanent»
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