“Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.”— Marcel Proust, amazon.comTagged: Art, seeing, Vision, appreciating
“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, amazon.comTagged: Reader, Insight, Self-awareness, Self-Recognition, Writers
“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…”— Marcel Proust, amazon.comTagged: Reader, Reading, writer, Books, Truth