I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, … - Marcel Proust

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You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.

Marcel Proust

I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, though I know of nothing more beautiful than the hawthorn, for I wish to remain sincere and because I know that the beauty of a painting does not depend on the things represented in it. I shall not collect images of hawthorn. I do not venerate hawthorn, I go to see and smell it.

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