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
thinking people unhappy
People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.
love real people
The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in love.
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.
book people personality
Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for everyone, and need only be turned up like a page in an account-book or the record of a will; our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people.
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.
real people different
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
knowing people sensual
At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could stop there, that he would not be obliged to learn their sorrows; how small a thing her charm was for him now compared with the astounding terror that extended out from it like a murky halo, the immense anguish of not knowing at every moment what she had been doing, of not possessing her everywhere and always!
eye people looks
There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.
years people world
And indeed when we are no longer in love with women whom we meet after many years, is there not the abyss of death between them and ourselves, just as much as if they were no longer of this world, since the fact that we are no longer in love makes the people that they were or the person that we were then as good as dead?
long people pot
So long as I know what's boiling in my pot I don't bother my head about what's in other people's.
pain people imagine
Unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.
imagination people atmosphere
Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.
people regimes difficult
If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people.
views people may
We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure that other people's views are never in accordance with our own.