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
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
sight mind littles
The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it....
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.
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.
art believe mind
I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.
people mind tragedy
It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.
dark light mind
What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the dark region through which it must go seeking and where all its equipment will avail it nothing. Seek? More than that: create. It is face to face with something which does not yet exist, which it alone can make actual, which it alone can bring into the light of day.
decision mind lasts
It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions
giving long mind
Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up.
mind great-minds flotsam
Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.
ideas mind packs
We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we have already formed about him, and in the complete picture of him we compose in our minds those ideas have certainly the principal place.
mind
We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.
exercise mind quality
Our virtues themselves are not free and floating qualities over which we retain a permanent control and power of disposal; they come to be so closely linked in our minds with the actions in conjunction with which we have made it our duty to exercise them that if we come to engage in an activity of a different kind, it catches us off guard and without the slightest awareness that it might involve the application of those same virtues.