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Books Quotes by Marcel Proust
- Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.
- They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.
- 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 dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that is to say…
- These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I…
- To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine…
- 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…
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