It is only through art that we can escape from ourselves and know how another person sees a universe which is not the same as our own and whose landscapes would otherwise have remained as unknown as any there may be on the moon.
 Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again (1927). copy citation

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Author Marcel Proust
Source Finding Time Again
Topic landscape escape
Date 1927
Language English
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Note Translated by Ian Patterson
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