Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. – Marcel…
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best. – Marcel Proust
Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. – Marcel Proust
Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter. – Marcel Proust
I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.
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