On Reading by Marcel Proust, John Ruskin

On Reading

Marcel Proust, John Ruskin with Eric Karpeles, Damion Searls (Translator)

113 pages first pub 1905 (editions)

nonfiction essays reflective slow-paced
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"To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort...

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