Quote by Marcel Proust
The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individ

The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals… is the plagiarism of ourselves. – Marcel Proust

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

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Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an authors phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. – Guy Debord

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They lard their lean books with the fat of others work. – Sir Richard Francis Burton

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Nothing is said which has not been said before. – Terence

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They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their works they may lard their own lean volumes. – Jovius

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