The best quotes by Marcel Proust

Writer, essayist and critic, born monday july 10, 1871 in Auteuil-Neuilly-Passy (France), died saturday november 18, 1922 in Paris (France)
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Posted by: asterisco
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.
Marcel Proust
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    Posted by: Marianna Mansueto
    The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.
    Marcel Proust
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      Posted by: Luca Englaro
      The task was to interpret the given sensations as signs of so many laws and ideas, by trying to think - that is to say to draw forth from the shadow - what I had merely felt, by trying to convert it into its spiritual equivalent.
      Marcel Proust
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