What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.
~ Marcel Proust
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What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.
~ Marcel Proust
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
~ Lao Zi
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Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.
~ Marcel Proust
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I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.
~ Confucius
Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also.
~ Marcel Proust
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A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain
does not outlast the day. Such is the course of nature.
~ Lao Zi
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By art alone we are able to get outside ourselves, to know what another sees of this universe which for him is not ours, the landscapes of which would remain as unknown to us as those of the moon.
~ Marcel Proust
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In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.
~ Marcel Proust
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He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know.
~ Lao Zi
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