Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader to enable the latter to discover in himself what he would not have found but for the aid of the book.


Remembrance of things Past Cities of the Plain The Captive The Sweet Cheat Gone (ed. 1932)

Marcel Proust Quotes

Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader to enable...

Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader to enable...

Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader to enable...

Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader to enable...