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

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

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Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. – Marcel Proust

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I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one. – Lucille Ball

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Theres an adage that is an apt description of the new dynamic at work between brands and consumers connected through social media: People support what they help to build. But now that many brands are launching community-driven cause marketing campaigns, the challenge becomes what to do next? – Simon Mainwaring

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The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens. – Gustave Flaubert

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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. – T. S. Eliot

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If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself. – Russian Proverb

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I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and thats what my dad was into. – Slash

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Come sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness. – Rumi

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It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat. – Loren Eiseley, “The Innocent Fox,” The Star Thrower, 1978

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