Marcel Proust was born in Paris, France, into a wealthy family. His fragile health and personal experiences, including his homosexuality and complex relationship with his mother, profoundly influenced his writing. He spent much of his adult life in isolation, working on his masterpiece, "In Search of Lost Time." This work is a profound exploration of involuntary memory, the passage of time, social relationships, and the nature of art. Proust is celebrated for his intricate writing style, detailed psychological analysis, and his ability to capture the nuances of human experience. "In Search of Lost Time" is considered one of the most important works of 20th-century literature.
Poems List
[W]e must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were only the recording of an heroic gesture which today is reenacted at every moment.
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In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one’s life.
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To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state.
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There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving behind still fewer traces of itself than Beauty: namely Grief.
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Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.
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