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How Proust Can Change Your Life
by Alain de Botton
April 4, 2017 - April 5, 2017 (read)

de Botton, A. (1997). How Proust Can Change Your Life. Picador.


Picador, 1997. 215 pages. Paperback. 9780330354912

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p.206
artistic idolatry »
a literal reverence for objects depicted in art w…
p.204
volubility »
the quality of talking fluently, readily, or ince…
p.171
lacuna »
an unfilled space; a gap (plural: lacunae)
p.112
apotheosis »
the highest point in the development of something…
p.107
obsequies »
funeral rites
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How to Put Books Down

don't participate in artistic idolatry--for example, visiting the town that Proust used to holiday in. instead of looking at his world through our eyes, look at our own world through his eyes

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How to Put Books Down

don't participate in artistic idolatry--for example, visiting the town that Proust used to holiday in. instead of looking at his world through our eyes, look at our own world through his eyes

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