Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of opt… — Marcel Proust

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 book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

Marcel ProustAuthor · French · 1871 – 1922

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