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
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It has been said that beauty brings a promise of happiness, but it could be otherwise that the possibility of joy is the beginning of beauty.
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The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which have become permanent
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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
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There can be no piece of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires
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As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral
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The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it, and habit fills up what remains
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A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it
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The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people.
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It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms, one would not part
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We always end up doing the thing we are second best at.
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The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.
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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge we make promise only; pain we obey.
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His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that he was immune from snobbishness