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Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.
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More Quotes by Marcel Proust
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.
Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.
