Marcel Proust Quotes

But To Return To My Own Case, I Thought More Modestly Of My Book And It Would Be Inaccurate Even To Say That I Thought Of Those Who Would Read It As "my" Readers. For It Seemed To Me That They Would Not Be "my" Readers But The Readers Of Their Own Selves, My Book Being Merely A Sort Of Magnifying Glass Like Those Which The Optician At Combray Used To Offer His Customers - It Would Be My Book, But With Its Help I Would Furnish Them With The Means Of Reading What Lay Inside Themselves. So That I Should Not Ask Them To Praise Me Or To Censure Me, But Simply To Tell Me Whether "it Really Is Like That," I Should Ask Them Whether The Words That They Read Within Themselves Are The Same As Those Which I Have Written (though A Discrepancy In This Respect Need Not Always Be The Consequence Of An Error On My Part, Since The Explanation Could Also Be That The Reader Had Eyes For Which My Book Was Not A Suitable Instrument).

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