Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what a…

Marcel Proust
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Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which, without art, the landscapes would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon. ✨ In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained.
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Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which, without art, the landscapes would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon. ✨ In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained.

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