Proust - Inside Thoughts

Si Proust dans son Contre Sainte-Beuve a pu assurer qu’« un livre est le produit d’un autre moi que celui que nous manifestons dans nos habitudes, dans la société, dans nos vices

I READ the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private he

‘In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.’

It is the vanity of the ego that claims thoughts as “mine.” Genius, on the other hand, commonly attributes the source of creative leaps of awareness to that basis of all consciousness, which has traditionally been called Divinity.