The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and revea…

Marcel Proust
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The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live, from which we get farther and farther away as the conventional knowledge we substitute for it becomes thicker and more impermeable. ✨ Marcel Proust (1948). The Maxims of Marcel Proust
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