Proust quote - what do you think it means? how do you interpret it?

Question

"The book whose hieroglyphs are not traced by us is the only book that really belongs to us."

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Answer 1

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Seems odd to me that modern man 'owns' only one book and that it is written in a script that we do not write.

Something tells me that there are unrevealed facts here.