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
It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.
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One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one’s eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words of the editor as to the words of one’s mistress.
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The “sensibility” claimed by neurotics is matched by their egotism; they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an ever increasing attention in themselves.
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We are less justified in saying that the thinking life of humanity is a miraculous perfectioning of animal and physical life than that it is an imperfection in the organization of spiritual life as rudimentary as the communal existence of protozoa in colonies.
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Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years’ time.
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourself are dying.
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