【關於書】 追憶似水年華

現實中，每位讀者在閱讀之時，都是直面自我的。作者所寫的著作只不過是一種指引，讓讀者能夠覺察內在的自己。若沒有了書，人們將永遠不能看見自我。讀者對自身的認知，藉由書本，證明了自我存在的真實。
--普魯斯特 《追憶似水年華》

In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument, which he offers to the reader to permit him to discern what, without the book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. The reader's recognition in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its truth.
--Marcel Proust
Time Regained