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In Search of Lost Proust

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes" (Marcel Proust).

"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. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth" (Proust).

"We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world" (Proust).

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom" (Proust).

tularcita
tularcita: Were you able to successfully navigate your way through the seven volumes of "Remembrance of Things Past"?
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Mr_Mindblank
Mr_Mindblank in reply to tularcita: If by "successfully navigate," you mean "skim," then yes!
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