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
imagination giving trying
But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.
seems
Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment.
atheist perfect denial
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
rain fall light
A little tap at the window, as though some missile had struck it, followed by a plentiful, falling sound, as light, though, as if a shower of sand were being sprinkled from a window overhead; then the fall spread, took on an order, a rhythm, became liquid, loud, drumming, musical, innumerable, universal. It was the rain
wall night long-ago
Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle gradually climb was long ago demolished. And in myself, too, many things have perished which I imagined would last for ever, and new ones have arisen, giving birth to new sorrows and new joys which in those days I could not have foreseen, just as now the old are hard to understand.
storm violence coast
I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence...
philosophical paradise lost
The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
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.
suffering physicians certain
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
literature swiftness proportion
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
practice literature vices
No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
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.
paradise lost
The only paradise is paradise lost.
happiness laughter joy
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.