"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
"A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure."
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Source: Marcel Proust's preface (1910) to John Ruskin The Bible of Amiens translated by Marcel Proust (1904); later quoted in Marcel Proust: On Reading Ruskin translated by Jean Autret and Philip J. Wolfe (p. 53), 1987.
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