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Marcel Proust
“Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.”
Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

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 Proust, Time Regained

Marcel Proust
“Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.”
Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust
“All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.”
Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

Marcel Proust
“If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.”
Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

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