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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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time.
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.
Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.
