Marcel Proust

Who was Marcel Proust?

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu. It was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927.

Famous Quotes:

• People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.
• A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
• Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
• Everything great that we know has come from neurotics 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.
• A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
• A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
• The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
• Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge we make promise only; pain we obey.
• Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
• The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.