Who is Marcel Proust
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (; French: [maʁsɛl pʁust]; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu; with the previous English title translation of Remembrance of Things Past), originally published in French in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century.Background
Proust was born on 10 July 1871, shortly after the conclusion of the Franco-Prussian War and at the very beginning of the Third Republic. He was born in the Paris Borough of Auteuil (the south-western sector of the then-rustic 16th arrondissement) at the home of his great-...
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- Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
- 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.
- Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
- A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
- Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
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Monendrakapur: a change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves. - marcel proustWasteshifter: love is space and time measured by the heart” marcel proust
Donnaslam: "let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - marcel proust
Stoic_in_truth: "let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - marcel proust
Abrar_alq10: “the fact that we occupy an ever larger place in time is something that everybody feels “ -marcel proust (1927)
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