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> [“Forgetting that beauty and happiness are only ever incarnated in an individual person, we replace them in our minds by a conventional pattern, a sort of average of all the different faces we have ever admired, all the different pleasures…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/proust/forgetting-that-beauty-and-happiness-are-only-ever-incarnated-in-an/)

proust

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## More by proust

> [“...the salient feature of the absurd age I was at--an age which for all its alleged awkwardness, is prodigiously rich-- is that reason is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/proust/the-salient-feature-of-the-absurd-age-i-was-at-an-age-which-for-all/)

proust

> [“les vrais paradis sont les paradis qu'on a perdus”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/proust/les-vrais-paradis-sont-les-paradis-qu-on-a-perdus/)

Proust

> [“Forgetting that beauty and happiness are only ever incarnated in an individual person, we replace them in our minds by a conventional pattern, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/proust/forgetting-that-beauty-and-happiness-are-only-ever-incarnated-in-an/)

proust

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