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Reader Quotes by Marcel Proust
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.
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