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
knowledge desire tiny
The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.
heart friendly fit
At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts.
military war army
It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event takes place, when at the front an army is in danger, or defeated, or victorious, the rather obscure news which the cultivated man does not quite understand, excite in the masses an emotion which surprises him and in which, once the experts have informed him of the actual military situation, he recognizes the populace's perception of that "aura" surrounding great events and visible for hundreds of kilometers.
inspirational strength powerful
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
moments unsatisfied
Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
memories window photograph
Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.
pain health doctors
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.
luxury trying literature
If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
death diversity peculiar
We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar unexpectedness of obituary notices in the newspapers.
love giving people
We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy, or suffering, it seems as if he must belong to some other universe, he is imbued with poetry.
dark tree soul
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
suffering physicians certain
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
night men light
However, the danger in [socially unbalanced relationships] is that the subjection of the woman temporarily calms the man's jealousy but also renders it more demanding. He ends up making his mistress live like those prisoners on whom light is shone day and night in order for them to be better watched. And things always end in tragedy.
witty sweet night
Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them. Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night.