"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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"Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them."
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"Love is space and time measured by the heart."
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"The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it."
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