The facts of life have no meaning for the artist, they are to him merely an opportunity for exposing the naked blaze of his genius.The facts of life have no meaning for the artist, they are to him merely an opportunity for exposing the naked blaze of his genius.
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Even the name, Simonet, which I had already heard spoken on the beach, if I had been asked to write it down I should have spelt with a double ‘n’ never dreaming of the importance which this family attached to there being but one in their name. In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
— Marcel Proust | In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower | Chapter 23
