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Marcel Proust

~ 1871 - 1922

Marcel Proust (1871–1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist known for his monumental work "In Search of Lost Time" (À la recherche du temps perdu). His exploration of memory, time, and human nature through intricate prose and vivid detail has cemented him as one of the most influential figures in 20th-century literature.

  1. We do not receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

    Marcel ProustIn Search of Lost Time, Volume 7: Finding Time Again
    #wisdom#journey#discovery

  2. Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

    Marcel ProustIn Search of Lost Time, Vol. 5: The Prisoner, p. 376, 2002
    #illness#pain#obedience

  3. Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

    Marcel ProustIn Search of Lost Time, Vol. 6: The Fugitive, p. 165, 2002
    #art#empathy#connection

  4. 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
    #freedom#science#thought

  5. Love is space and time measured by the heart.

    Marcel ProustIn Search of Lost Time, Volume V: The Prisoner, p. 398 (Modern Library, 1981)
    #love#emotion#measurement

  6. 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 ProustIn Search of Lost Time, Volume 6: The Prisoner, p. 357, 2002
    #wisdom#journey#discovery

  7. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

    Marcel ProustIn Search of Lost Time, Volume 6: The Prisoner, p. 143 (Modern Library, 1992)
    #voyage#discovery#perspective

  8. Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

    Marcel Proust
    #gratitude#happiness#growth