How to Put Books Down

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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


        de Botton, A. (1997). How to Put Books Down. In de Botton, A. How Proust Can Change Your Life. Picador, pp. 173-214

the quality of talking fluently, readily, or incessantly; talkativeness

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I detest my own volubility

—p.204 by Virginia Woolf

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I detest my own volubility

—p.204 by Virginia Woolf

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a literal reverence for objects depicted in art with a neglect for the spirit of art

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indulging in what Proust called artistic idolatry

—p.206 by Alain de Botton

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7 years, 8 months ago

indulging in what Proust called artistic idolatry

—p.206 by Alain de Botton

notable

7 years, 8 months ago

How Proust Can Change Your Life
by Alain de Botton

How Proust Can Change Your Life
by Alain de Botton

How Proust Can Change Your Life
by Alain de Botton