Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 2: Within a Budding Grove, p. 123, 1918
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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.
1871–1922·lived 51 years
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 2: Within a Budding Grove, p. 123, 1918
We do not receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.The Guermantes Way, p. 123, 1920
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.In Search of Lost Time - Vol. VII: The Past Recaptured, 1927
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.
Love is space and time measured by the heart.In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1: Swann's Way, p. 123, 1913
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, 1919
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1: Swann's Way, p. 63, 1913
That’s all 8 quotes by Marcel Proust.