Quotes by Marcel Proust

Writer, essayist and critic, born monday july 10, 1871 in Auteuil-Neuilly-Passy (France), died saturday november 18, 1922 in Paris (France)
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I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.
Marcel Proust
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    The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.
    Marcel Proust
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