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
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.
love profound literature
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
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.
different-opinions literature made
A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.
teamwork world literature
The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.
love quality literature
Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
luxury trying literature
If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
fashion grace literature
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
love literature torture
Love is a reciprocal torture.
love reality literature
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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