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
lying doctors genius
Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient
lying heart doe
The heart does not lie.
lying men self
Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.
lying effort obscurity
What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies within us, that which to others is unknown.
art lying passion
Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo this work of theirs, making us travel back in the direction from which we have come to the depths where what has really existed lies unknown within us.
lying rely-upon done
Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.
lying believe ends
Friendship is in the end no more than: " . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone."
lying love-is suffering
How can we have the courage to wish to live, how can we make a movement to preserve ourselves from death, in a world where love is provoked by a lie and consists solely in the need of having our sufferings appeased by whatever being has made us suffer?
lying real might
How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it?
lying reality knowing
But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.
lying cease
It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.
motivational success lying
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
life success lying
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
lying humanity essentials
Lies are essential to humanity.