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“[...]Because at some point everyone wants to run away from their life. It's about the only thing human beings have in common”
― The Only Story
― The Only Story
“I felt myself still reliving a past which was no longer anything more than the history of another person;”
― In Search of Lost Time
― In Search of Lost Time
“Strange how, when you are young, you owe no duty to the future; but when you are old, you owe a duty to the past. To the one thing you can’t change.”
― The Only Story
― The Only Story
“Describe snow to someone who's lived in the desert. Depict the colour blue for a blind man. Almost impossible to fashion the word.”
― Small Island
― Small Island
“In reality, every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have experienced in himself. And the recognition by the reader in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its veracity.”
― How Proust Can Change Your Life
― How Proust Can Change Your Life
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