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
imagination mind slides
The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.
women men imagination
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
imagination giving trying
But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.
men imagination pretty-woman
Laissons les jolies femmes aux hommes sans imagination. Leave the pretty women for the men without imagination.
imagination people atmosphere
Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.
memories real imagination
It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world but upon a doll inside our head, the only woman who is always available in fact, the only one we shall ever possess, whom the arbitrary nature of memory, almost as absolute as that of the imagination, may have made as different from the real woman as the real Balbec had been from the Balbec I imagined- a dummy creation that little by little, to our own detriment, we shall force the real woman to resemble.
men imagination suffering
Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.
best second
We always end up doing the thing we are second best at.
generally habit proportion
The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.
decisions destined mind state
It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions
expressing healed suffering
We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full.
healed suffering
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
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.
face features gestures hardly permanent
The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which have become permanent