Literary Birthday – 10 July – Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust was born on 10 July 1871 and died on 18 November 1922.
Marcel Proust Quotes
- Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
- Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
- Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
- There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favourite book.
- The real voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
- A language which we do not know is a fortress sealed.
- Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself.
- Truth is a point of view about things.
- Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Read: Proust’s Questionnaire – 35 Questions Every Character Should Answer
Marcel Proust was a French novelist best known for In Search of Lost Time, also published in English as Remembrance of Things Past. This seven-volume novel follows an unnamed narrator as he looks back on his childhood, relationships, and adult life in late 19th- and early 20th-century France. Proust’s writing explores memory, time, love, and the hidden emotions behind everyday life. His work is known for its detail and psychological insight. He is also linked to the famous Proust’s Questionnaire, a set of personal questions that has become a popular interview format in magazines and media.
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by Amanda Patterson
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