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
advantage desires fresh future love mind piece secured since
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
desire belief failing
It is desire that engenders belief; if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that create beliefs end only with out own life.
desire anticipation
Desire makes everything blossom
love-is mind desire
There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.
confused cutting desire
Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.
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.
knowledge desire tiny
The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.
desire possession fades
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
actions difficult stellar universe
The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people.
becomes moral soon unhappy
As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral
contract disposal expand fills habit inspire passions remains time
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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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
good indeed parts seldom
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms, one would not part