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Quotes from notes to Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin — Marcel Proust

1871–1922 France

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There are very few philosophers and artists who are absolutely detached from ambition and respect for power, from "people of position." And among those who are more delicate or more sated, snobism replaces ambition and respect for power in the same way superstition arises on the ruins of religious beliefs.

notes to Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin (1906)

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