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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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I put down my cup and examine my own mind. It is for it to discover the truth. But how? What an abyss of uncertainty whenever the mind feels that some...more

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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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... 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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The beauty of images lies behind things, the beauty of ideas in front of them.