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
father sky tree
You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?' I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore an inclement and pitiless sky.' That is not what I meant,' interrupted my father, as obstinate as the trees and as pitiless as the sky.
spiritual reading discipline
Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There are certain cases of spiritual depression in which reading can become a sort of curative discipline ... reintroducing a lazy mind into the life of the Spirit.
dream fate phrases
Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases of music, these conceptions which exist in relation to our dream, must be nothing either. We shall perish, but we have as hostages these divine captives who will follow and share our fate. And death in their company is somehow less bitter, less inglorious, perhaps even less probable.
love hype infidelity
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
philosophy life-philosophy intonation
Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.
life wise wisdom
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
people dying literature
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
unhappy moral unhappiness
We become moral when we are unhappy.
happiness laughter joy
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
real people different
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
love profound literature
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
years names two
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
practice literature vices
No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
literature swiftness proportion
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.