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
succeed chance catching
When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.
freedom science men
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
religion world neurosis
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
way destination seeing
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
honesty stress thinking
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
inspirational life positive
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
long waiting miracle
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
friendship happiness happy
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
landscapes seeking voyage
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
face features gestures hardly permanent
The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which have become permanent
good indeed parts seldom
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms, one would not part
believe derivative hate hatred immune
His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that he was immune from snobbishness
art believe mind
I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.
art profound byzantine
In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map of Europehas endured profound rearrangements and is perhaps on the brink of enduring yet others, where so many threatening and new problems appear everywhere, you will admit it may be demanded of a writer that he be more than a fine wit who makes us forget in idle and byzantine discussions on the merits of pure form ...