Hugh Mosher

“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.”
― Marcel Proust, Time Regained

“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
― Proust-M

“The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.”
― Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

“Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time