The reason why a work of genius is not easily admired from the first is that the man who has created it is extraordinary, that few other men resemble him. It is his work itself that, by fertilising the rare minds capable of understanding it, will make them increase and multiply. - Marcel Proust (In Search of Lost Time Quotes)

The reason why a work of genius is not easily admired from the first is that the man who has created it is extraordinary, that few other men resemble him. It is his work itself that, by fertilising the rare minds capable of understanding it, will make them increase and multiply.[Ce qui est cause qu’une oeuvre de génie est difficilement admirée tout de suite, c’est que celui qui l’a écrite est extraordinaire, que peu de gens lui ressemblent. C’est son oeuvre elle-même qui, en fécondant les rares esprits capables de le comprendre, les fera croître et multiplier.]

Source:Part One, Vol. II: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (1919)
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