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
religion world neurosis
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
way destination seeing
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
honesty stress thinking
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
inspirational life positive
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
long waiting miracle
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
friendship happiness happy
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
fashion horse children
When I was small child, all that belonged to conservative society was fashionable, and no republicans were welcome in the smartersalons. People living in such a milieu could imagine that the impossibility of ever inviting an "opportunist", much less a "radical", was a thing that would last forever, like gas lamps and horse-drawn omnibuses. But similar to kaleidoscopes turning from time to time, society successively places in various ways elements which were thought to be immutable and creates a new composition.
communication animal inspire
The fact of the matter is that, since we are determined always to keep our feelings to ourselves, we have never given any thought to the manner in which we should express them. And suddenly there is within us a strange and obscene animal making itself heard, whose tones may inspire as much alarm in the person who receives the involuntary, elliptical and almost irresistible communication of one's defect or vice as would the sudden avowal indirectly and outlandishly proffered by a criminal who can no longer refrain from confessing to a murder of which one had never imagined him to be guilty.
age certain obvious
After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.
truth character waiting
The truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent, and ... one may perhaps gather it with more certainty, without waiting for words and without even taking any account of them, from countless outward signs, even from certain invisible phenomena, analogous in the sphere of human character to what atmospheric changes are in the physical world.
fashion desire
Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also.