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The flowers were recording instruments of exquisite sensitivity; their glass anthers captured someone pouring a glass of water, the turning of a page.
“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
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“Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.”
― In Search of Lost Time
― In Search of Lost Time
“Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance.”
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“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
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“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
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