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Quotes by Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust, born on July 10, 1871, in Auteuil, France, was a seminal novelist and essayist best known for his monumental work, "In Search of Lost Time" ("À la recherche du temps perdu"). This introspective novel, published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927, delves into themes of memory, time, and identity, influencing modern literature profoundly. Proust's unique narrative style and exploration of consciousness have cemented his legacy as a literary giant whose insights into the human experience continue to resonate with readers and writers today.
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"We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison."
Marcel Proust"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."
Marcel Proust"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
Marcel Proust"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."
Marcel Proust"Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness."
Marcel Proust"It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body."
Marcel Proust
"Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey."
Marcel Proust
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
Marcel Proust
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
Marcel Proust