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
motivational success lying
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
pain health doctors
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.
time lying littles
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
inspirational strength powerful
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
heartbreak reality long
In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted -- atrocious.
mind lasting-love resolution
It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.
pain kindness doctors
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
mind desire resemblance
There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
love-is anxiety desire
For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.
luxury trying literature
If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
youth sin
For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.
reading heart reality
The heart changes...but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is so gradual that, even if we are able to distinguish, successively, each of its different states, we are still spared the actual sensation of change.
thoughtful power thinking
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands, but at leastin our thoughts where we may dispose of them at our whim, which gives us the illusion of power over them.
spring flower kissing
Every kiss provokes another. Oh, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring to life! So closely, in their profusion, do they crowd together that lovers would find it as hard to count the kisses exchanged in an hour as to count the flowers in a meadow in May...