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
life thinking two
We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.
years names two
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
aunt two suffering
The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing ... put to rest its receptor organs and allowed them to suffer the true beginnings of atrophy.
reality two fantasy
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
face features gestures hardly permanent
The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which have become permanent
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.
consists discovery landscapes seeking voyage
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
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
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
man power powerful
A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it
actions difficult stellar universe
The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people.
good indeed parts seldom
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms, one would not part
best second
We always end up doing the thing we are second best at.