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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

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THE POWER OF READING AND

But beware, warns Proust, reading is an impulse, a car, we can not expect to replace our creativity. Reading is not the truth. Everything happens in us, everything is governed by our strength, to read "simply returns the use of our personal activity, as a psychotherapist simply returns to the patient's will use the stomach, legs, brain, left intact. " Become dangerous cargo potential that are not his, to justify the weakening of ourselves. Proust seems to warn bibliophiles, those looking for definitive answers in the books, who love them as sacred objects: the truth is not in the books as a means of devotion, but only in ourselves. [...]

Perhaps it's to return to the starting point: the reading is to enter a car in ourselves, in our most secret heart, where there is the sheer creative force, that reading more help free . But no external contribution - no explanation - can replace it, the truth, because no one outside of ourselves can really claim to reveal the true, and unique nature.

(From the article The second reading M. Poust, M. Baldrati)