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
beauty loss world
The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.
fashion clothes world
Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness are of more service than all the cosmetics and fine clothes in the world.
suffering world possession
There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.
world creation creation-of-the-world
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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.
artist world failing
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion
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?
art world form
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
caring world care
Not caring for their lives' is it? Why, what in the world is there that we should care for if it's not our lives, the only gift the Lord never offers us a second time.
doctors doubt world
Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them; they may inflict on them the most constant refutations without weakening them, and an avalanche of afflictions or ailments succeeding one another without interruption in a family will not make it doubt the goodness of its God or the talent of its doctor.
rainy-day weather world
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
art world thanks
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
religion world neurosis
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
actions difficult stellar universe
The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people.