Quotes from French Author Marcel Proust!
From the wikipedia, Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of Remembrance of Things Past (in French À la recherche du temps perdu, literally In Search of Lost Time), a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction published in seven parts from 1913 to 1927. Proust was born in Auteuil (the southern sector of Paris’s then-rustic 16th arrondissement) at the home of his great-uncle, two months after the Treaty of Frankfurt formally ended the Franco-Prussian War. His birth took place during the violence that surrounded the suppression of the Paris Commune, and his childhood corresponds with the consolidation of the French Third Republic. Much of In Search of Lost Time concerns the vast changes, most particularly the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of the middle classes, that occurred in France during the Third Republic and the fin de siècle.
Here is a compilation some of his famous quotes and sayings:
Marcel proust’s Quote on success, “We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually..”
Marcel Proust’s quote on Love, “Love is space and time measured by the heart.”
Another Marcel Proust’s quote on Love, “Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians. ”
Another one on Love, “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’s quote on art, “Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.”
Marcel Proust’s quote on happiness , “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
“Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.”
Marcel Proust’s quote / saying on learning ,”People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.”