To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
MARCEL PROUSTTo write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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