In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self…

Marcel Proust
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In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self. ✨ Le Temps Retrouve (Time Regained) (1926) (translation by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin)
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In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self. ✨ Le Temps Retrouve (Time Regained) (1926) (translation by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin)

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