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And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors.

And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors.

Marcel Proust
Faces, Study, Appearance
Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.621, Modern Library

The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.

Marcel Proust
Sea, Opinion, Appearance
Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.1903, Delphi Classics

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