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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"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."

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"Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern."

Order Different Elements
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"Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect."

Spring Intelligent People
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"A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves."

Rainy Day Weather World
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"Le temps qui change les e" tres ne modifie pas l'image que nous avons garde e d'eux. Although time changes people, it cannot change the image we have already made of them."

People Made Avon
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"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."

Freedom Science Men
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"People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad."

Death Thinking People
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"To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator."

Book Writing Humility
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"Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal."

Art World Thanks
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"The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it."

Passion Inspire Each Day
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"Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come."

Moments Unsatisfied
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"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 common bacillus."

Love Intelligent Men
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"It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for."

Waiting Moments Left
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"An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates."

Sound Climate Scent
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"Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees."

Dark Tree Soul
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"Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be."

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