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Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust ( PROOST; French: [maʁsɛl pʁust]; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist best known for his novel À la recherche du temps perdu (translated into English as In Search of Lost Time, earlier Remembrance of Things Past), which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927 and totals around 1.25 million words. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century.

Quotes from Marcel Proust

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

—Marcel Proust

The only paradise is paradise lost.

—Marcel Proust

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

—Marcel Proust

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

—Marcel Proust

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

—Marcel Proust

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so

—Marcel Proust

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Love is space and time measured by the heart.

—Marcel Proust

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

—Marcel Proust

We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.

—Marcel Proust

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

—Marcel Proust