Quote by Marcel Proust
Every reader finds himself. The writers work is merely a kind of o

Every reader finds himself. The writers 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

Other quotes by Marcel Proust

The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves. – Marcel Proust

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Mental Illness
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The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace. – Marcel Proust

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Paradox
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The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. – Marcel Proust

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Charisma
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Other Quotes from
work
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism its egotism. – Robert Frost

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work

I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. – Jerome K. Jerome

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work

When youre around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, its not strange, its just Gaga. – Lady Gaga

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work

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it. – Alice Walker

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work

Random Quotes

Love is the thread that binds us. – Author Unknown

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Needlework

People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them, trust me, you dont want my life. Ive been a very tortured soul. – Phil Spector

Category:
Trust

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. – Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

Category:
Appearance

Hell, there are no rules here, we are trying to accomplish something. – Thomas Alva Edison

Category:
Rules