Accustomed Quote by Guy de Maupassant

“We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.” quote by Guy de Maupassant — Download Open image

“We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.”

Guy de Maupassant

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