"Every reader finds himself. The writer's 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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"We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.“
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