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Quote by Marcel Proust
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what anothe

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. – Marcel Proust

Other quotes by Marcel Proust

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey. – Marcel Proust

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Knowledge
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Marcel Proust
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Every reader finds himself. The writers work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. – Marcel Proust

Category:
work
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Marcel Proust
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love. – Marcel Proust

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Infidelity
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Marcel Proust
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Art
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. – Jean Cocteau

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It is for every normal human being to be an artist. It is his divine heritage, every child is an artist. Human society kills it in us before we reach maturity. – Dudley Crafts Watson, 1918

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Art

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Art

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event. – Theodore Bikel

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Art

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Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. – Jimi Hendrix

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It is better to know what to fear than to say no fear. – Tim Fargo

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No one wants advice – only corroboration. – John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee. – English saying used on poesy rings

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