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“Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader to enable the latter to discover in himself what he would not have found but for the aid of the book.”

Quote by Marcel Proust

Book:Remembrance of Things Past

Work

Remembrance of Things Past

In this renowned work, the protagonist reflects on his past, delving into the complexities of human relationships and the passage of time. more

Author

Marcel Proust was a French novelist renowned for his magnum opus, 'In Search of Lost Time'. This novel is considered a classic of 20th-century literature, known for its intricate psychological portrayals and profound exploration of memory. more

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Heart Certain Type Opposites Dues Senses Evolve Temperament Similarity Eliminating Complement

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)

“A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to ourself exposed on his surface...but is a shadow which we can never succeed in penetrating...a shadow behind which we can alternately imagine, with equal justification, that there burns the flame of hatred and of love.”

Persons Doe Eye Behinds Clear Imagine Plans Succeed Equal Shadow Hatred Regard Intention Surface Flames Merit Exposed Justification Defects

Author:Marcel Proust

“The heart changes...but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is so gradual that, even if we are able to distinguish, successively, each of its different states, we are still spared the actual sensation of change.”

Ifs Heart Stills Different States Reality Able Certain Reading Imagination Natural Sensations Alterations Natural Phenomena

Author:Marcel Proust

“The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.”

Opinion Sea Relation Appearance Permanent Fluid Kinfolk

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)

“We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.”

Thinking World Life Feels Two Names Gaps

Author:Marcel Proust

“No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me.”

Happenings Extraordinary Warm Ran Touched Liquid Extraordinary Things Crumbs Palate Madeleines

Book:Swann's Way

Source: Swann's Way

“No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book. Everything that seemed to fill them full for others we pushed aside, because it stood between us and the pleasures of the Gods.”

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Book:Marcel Proust: A Selection from His Miscellaneous Writings

Source: Marcel Proust: A Selection from His Miscellaneous Writings

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Mind Littles Sight Madeleines

Book:Swann's Way

Source: Swann's Way

“Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated.”

Facts Form Strange Rebellion Humiliated Forms Of Love

Author:Albert Camus

“In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time.”

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Author:Albert Camus