How Proust Can Change Your Life — Part 5

How To Put Books Down

Proust believed that books playedimportant roles in our lives. He believed, as Botton put it, that:

…what all books might do for their readers—namely bring back to life, from the darkness caused by habit and inattention, valuable yet neglected aspects of experience.

Proust also believed that books should not be read just to pass the time but that they should be read with purpose—mainly to discover our own thoughts and feelings.

“There is no better way of coming to be aware...