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.
fashion desire
Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also.
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.
face features gestures hardly permanent
The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which have become permanent
according art artist aspects reality represent selective view
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.
consists discovery landscapes seeking voyage
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
becomes moral soon unhappy
As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral