Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922), full name Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust, was a French novelist, critic, and essayist. His monumental novel "In Search of Lost Time" was originally published in French in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927.Wisdom & Quotes
- Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
- Everything is a matter of chronology.
- Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
- Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.
- Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
- Habit is a second nature that prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
- There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone protect us from others that are more serious.
- Everything great that we know has come to us from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and created our masterpieces. Never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.
- I have a horror of sunsets, they're so romantic, so operatic.
- There can be no peace of mind in love since the advantaged one has secured never anything out a fresh but a starting point for further desire.
- In theory, one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it; the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with time in one's life.
- As soon as one is unhappy, one becomes moral.
Louis McHenry Howe