Hawthorn blossom

Hawthorn blossom by Rhian vK
Hawthorn blossom, a photo by Rhian vK on Flickr.
The Proustian variety.


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I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, though I know of nothing more beautiful than the hawthorn, for I wish to remain sincere and because I know that the beauty of a painting does not depend on the things represented in it. I shall not collect images of hawthorn. I do not venerate hawthorn, I go to see and smell it.

   [Marcel Proust - preface (1910) to The Bible of Amiens by John Ruskin, translated by Proust (1904)]

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