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
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 favorite book.
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after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us.
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Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realize how much it owes to them and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.
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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us past it, and then if we turn round to gaze at the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it become.
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