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
world creation creation-of-the-world
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
powerful sleep most-powerful
The most powerful soporific is sleep itself.
children soul age
When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we sprang come and shower upon us their riches and their spells, asking to be allowed to contribute to the new emotions which we feel and in which, erasing their former image, we recast them in an original creation.
imagination mind slides
The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.
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.
memories grief heart
Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates.
pain past survival
I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.
mistake years medicine
Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years time.
beauty promise possibility
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
beauty loss world
The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.
love-is mind desire
There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.
nymphs tree movement
The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.
flower garden blue
If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of flowers as of colours and tones, less an old-fashioned flower garden than a colour garden, so to speak, one that achieves an effect not entirely nature's, because it was planted so that only the flowers with matching colours will bloom at the same time, harmonized in an infinite stretch of blue or pink.
motivational dance storm
A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.