Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

Novelist

Marcel Proust was a French novelist known for his profound exploration of memory and time in his major work, 'In Search of Lost Time.'

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Born
July 10, 1871
Died
November 18, 1922
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429
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#142

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"I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant, an inanimate object, indeed lost to us until the day, which for some never arrives, when we find that we pass near the tree, or come to possess the object which is their prison. Then they quiver, call us, and as soon as we have recognized them, the spell is broken. Freed by us, they have vanquished death and return to live with us."

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"In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self."

Reading Reality Self
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"For a long time I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.]"

Book Long Bed
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"All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art."

Art Great Work Great Things
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"Which of course is followed by: For those who have Awareness, a hint is quite enough. For the multitudes of heedless mere knowledge is useless. Haji Bektash Veli We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."

Spiritual Journey Hints
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"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."

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"Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them."

Conviction Conception Surround
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"Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is only a secondary state which is often superadded, but the want of which can have no prejudicial effect on it. Perhaps some of the greatest masterpieces were written while yawning."

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"At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could stop there, that he would not be obliged to learn their sorrows; how small a thing her charm was for him now compared with the astounding terror that extended out from it like a murky halo, the immense anguish of not knowing at every moment what she had been doing, of not possessing her everywhere and always!"

Knowing People Sensual
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"We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves."

Reality Nurse Littles
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"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."

Children Soul Age
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"There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes."

Infinite Time Singing Tilt
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"Death is in truth an illness from which we recover"

Illness
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"We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another."

Mind
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"Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own."

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"It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty."

Beauty Promise Pleasure
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