Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proustwas a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu, published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest authors...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth10 July 1871
CountryFrance
mind lasting-love resolution
It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.
liquid palate crumbs
No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me.
reading communication miracle
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
love-is people frustrated
Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.
love quality literature
Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
with one image he would make that beauty explode into me.
lying reality knowing
But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.
heartbreak reality long
In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted -- atrocious.
mind desire resemblance
There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
love-is anxiety desire
For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.
lying cease
It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.
simple stupidity intellectual
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
pain kindness doctors
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
intelligent doctors gambling
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.