Marcel Proust
French novelist and literary critic
Date of Birth | : | 10 Jul, 1871 |
Date of Death | : | 18 Nov, 1922 |
Place of Birth | : | Neuilly-Auteuil-Passy, France |
Profession | : | Novelist, Literary |
Nationality | : | France |
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (in French – translated in English as Remembrance of Things Past and more recently as In Search of Lost Time) which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century.
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Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.