In reality, each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a kind of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader to enable him to discover in himself what he could not have found but for the aid of the book.
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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
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Marcel Proust (88)
Birth: | 10th July, 1871 |
Death: | 18th November, 1922 |
Nationality: | French |
Profession: | Critic, Essayist, Novelist |
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Marcel Proust was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu. It was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927.
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