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Until I saw Chardin's painting I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house in the half-cleared table in the corner of a tab...more

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...for each of us sees clarity only in those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

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My dears, laugh at me if you like; it is not conventionally beautiful, but there is something in its quaint old face which pleases me. If it could pla...more

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In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enoug...more

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Her [Odette's] eyes were beautiful, but so large they seemed to droop beneath their own weight, strained the rest of her face and always made her appe...more

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... he was like a man into whose life a woman, whom he has seen for a moment passing by, has brought a new form of beauty, which strengthens and enlar...more

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Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

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The impression given us by a person or a work (or an interpretation of a work) of marked individuality is peculiar to that person or work. We have bro...more

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Ideas are substitutes for sorrows...