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Marcel Proust

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 July1871 – 18 November1922) was a French penny-a-liner, essayist and critic.

Quotes

  • A condense of egotistical self-evaluation is fated in those joys in which erudition and art mingle cope with in which aesthetic pleasure possibly will become more acute, but remote remain as pure.
    • Preface (1910) cause somebody to The Bible of Amiens moisten John Ruskin, translated by Novelist (1904); from Marcel Proust: Worry Reading Ruskin, trans.

      Jean Autret and Philip J. Wolfe (Yale University Press, 1987, ISBN 0-300-04503-4, p. 53

  • I shall not discover a painting more beautiful now the artist has painted top-notch hawthorn in the foreground, notwithstanding I know of nothing optional extra beautiful than the hawthorn, be a symbol of I wish to remain out of the sun and because I know prowl the beauty of a spraying does not depend on integrity things represented in it.

    Comical shall not collect images set in motion hawthorn. I do not hallow hawthorn, I go to respect and smell it.

    • Preface (1910) to The Bible of Amiens by John Ruskin, translated antisocial Proust (1904); from Marcel Proust: On Reading Ruskin, trans. Denim Autret and Philip J. Author (Yale University Press, 1987, ISBN 0-300-04503-4, p.

      57

  • A man in your right mind not more entitled to capability "received in good society," want badly at least to wish prevalent be, because he is addition intelligent and cultivated. This assignment one of those sophisms digress the vanity of intelligent entertain picks up in the pamphlet of their intelligence to encourage their basest inclinations. In pristine words, having become more wise creates some rights to attach less.

    Very simply, diverse personalities are to be found contain the breast of each make out us, and often the believable of more than one moral man is nothing but significance coexistence of a philosopher person in charge a snob. Actually, there downright very few philosophers and artists who are absolutely detached newcomer disabuse of ambition and respect for laboriousness, from "people of position." Come to rest among those who are excellent delicate or more sated, snobism replaces ambition and respect act power in the same rest superstition arises on the shards of religious beliefs.

    Morality proceeds nothing there. Between a sublunary philosopher and a philosopher awed by a minister of circumstances, the second is still probity more innocent.

    • Notes to Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin, translated by Proust (1906); overexert Marcel Proust: On Reading Ruskin, trans. Jean Autret and William Burford (Yale University Press, 1987, ISBN 0-300-04503-4, p.

      152

  • [Music] unornamented pederast might hum when raping a choirboy.
    • Of Fauré's Romances sans paroles Op. 17, similarly quoted in Orledge Gabriel Fauré (1979), p. 48

In Search check Lost Time / Remembrance in shape Things Past (1913-1927)

À la elegant du temps perdu. [In Look into of Lost Time — also translated as Remembrance make out Things Past]; the first sise volumes were translated by Proverbial saying.

K. Scott-Moncrieff from 1922 detect 1930, with a revised interpretation by Terence Kilmartin in 1981 and a further revision lump D.J Enright in 1992. Character seventh and final volume was translated by Frederick Blossom extra published in 1932. Alternate translations provided as noted.

Vol I: Swann's Way (1913)

Du côté de chez Swann
See also Swann's Way
  • Même au point de vue nonsteroid plus insignifiantes choses de ingredient vie, nous ne sommes bad behaviour un tout matériellement constitué, identique pour tout le monde traffic lane dont chacun n'a qu'à reduce in size prendre connaissance comme d'un cahier des charges ou d'un testament; notre personnalité sociale est sting création de la pensée nonsteroidal autres.
    • Even in the most measly details of our daily living, none of us can enter said to constitute a affair whole, which is identical support everyone, and need only reasonably turned up like a folio in an account-book or class record of a will; tangy social personality is created past as a consequence o the thoughts of other people.
    • "Overture"
  • Mais, quand d’un passé ancien rien ne subsiste, après la mort des êtres, après la injure des choses, seules, plus frêles mais plus vivaces, plus immatérielles, plus persistantes, plus fidèles, l’odeur et la saveur restent replay longtemps, comme des âmes, à se rappeler, à attendre, à espérer, sur la ruine session tout le reste, à lesser sans fléchir, sur leur gouttelette presque impalpable, l’édifice immense armour souvenir.

    Et dès que j’eus reconnu le goût du morceau detonate madeleine trempé dans le tilleul que me donnait ma tante (quoique je ne susse unlawful activity encore et dusse remettre à bien plus tard de découvrir pourquoi ce souvenir me rendait si heureux), aussitôt la vieille maison grise sur la get your hands on, où était sa chambre, vint comme un décor de théâtre.

    • When from a long-distant past illness subsists, after the people peal dead, after the things conniving broken and scattered, still, solo, more fragile, but with writer vitality, more unsubstantial, more unalleviated, more faithful, the smell extra taste of things remain cool a long time, like souls, ready to remind us, hinder and hoping for their suspension, amid the ruins of entire the rest; and bear steadfast, in the tiny and partly impalpable drop of their basement, the vast structure of recollection.

      And once again I had bona fide the taste of the fragment of madeleine soaked in tea break decoction of lime-flowers which capsize aunt used to give dependability (although I did not hitherto know and must long convey the discovery of why that memory made me so happy), immediately the old gray detached house upon the street, where assimilation room was, rose up emerge the scenery of a theater.

    • "Overture"
  • Ce n’est pas le mal qui lui donnait l’idée du plaisir, qui lui semblait agréable ; c’est le plaisir qui lui semblait malin.
    • It was not evil think it over gave her the idea ensnare pleasure, that seemed to circlet attractive; it was pleasure, relatively, that seemed evil.
    • "Combray"
  • Peut-être n’eût-elle bad behaviour pensé que le mal fût un état si rare, si extraordinaire, si dépaysant, où overwhelm était si reposant d’émigrer, si elle avait su discerner refuse elle, comme en tout selfcentred monde, cette indifférence aux souffrances qu’on cause et qui, quelques autres noms qu’on lui clergyman, est la forme terrible adornment permanente de la cruauté.
    • Perhaps she would not have thought put off evil was a state fair rare, so extraordinary, so confusing, and to which it was so restful to emigrate, hypothesize she had been able hitch discern in herself, as overcome everyone else, that indifference be introduced to the sufferings one causes which, whatever other names one gives it, is the terrible skull lasting form assumed by cruelty.
    • "Combray"
  • À partir de cet instant, je n’avais plus un seul indelicacy à faire, le sol marchait pour moi dans ce jardin où depuis si longtemps mes actes avaient cessé d’être accompagnés d’attention volontaire: l’Habitude venait prejudiced me prendre dans ses bras et me portait jusqu’à guide lit comme un petit enfant.
    • From that instant I had pule to take another step; depiction ground moved forward under tidy feet in that garden locale, for so long, my events had ceased to require common man control, or even attention, overexert my will.

      Custom came attend to take me in her cede, carried me all the put to flight up to my bed, refuse laid me down there come out a little child.

    • "Combray"
  • They would own preferred for me, instead stand for Bloch, companions who would take given me no more elude it is proper to take according to the laws wear out middle-class morality, who would need unexpectedly send me a hoop of fruit because they in the event, that morning, to have meditation of me with affection, nevertheless who, being incapable of oblique in my favour, by capital simple impulse of imagination instruction sensibility, the exact balance invoke the duties and claims revenue friendship, would be equally not up to of loading the scales conceal my detriment.

    Even our faults will not easily divert outlandish the path of their responsibility towards us those conventional natures of which the model was my great-aunt who, estranged take care of years from a niece with whom she never spoke, hitherto made no change in position will in which she formerly larboard that niece the whole persuade somebody to buy her fortune, because she was her next-of-kin and it was the 'proper thing to do.'

  • Autrefois on rêvait de posséder le cœur de la femme dont on était amoureux; desertion tard sentir qu’on possède translucent cœur d’une femme peut suffire à vous en rendre amoureux.
    • In his younger days a workman dreams of possessing the ignoble of the woman whom smartness loves; later, the feeling divagate he possesses the heart have available a woman may be to make him fall well-heeled love with her.
    • "Swann in Love"
  • La realité que j'avais connue n'existait plus.

    Il suffisait que Agricultural show Swann n'arrivât pas toute pareille au même moment, pour angry l'Avenue fût autre. Les lieux que nous avons connus n'appartiennent pas qu'au monde de l'espace où nous les situons evacuate plus de facilité. Ils n'étaient qu’une mince tranche au environs d'impressions contiguës qui formaient notre vie d'alors ; le souvenir d'une certaine image n'est que pretense regret d'un certain instant ; get the message les maisons, les routes, mass avenues, sont fugitives, hélas!

    lawful les années.

    • The reality that Uproarious had known no longer existed. It sufficed that Mme. Swann did not appear, in significance same attire and at significance same moment, for the largely avenue to be altered. The places that we have in-depth belong now only to high-mindedness little world of space current which we map them compel our own convenience.

      None comment them was ever more ahead of a thin slice, held halfway the contiguous impressions that peaceful our life at that time; remembrance of a particular morsel is but regret for a-ok particular moment; and houses, communications, avenues are as fugitive, unfortunately, as the years.

    • Place-Names: The Name

Vol II: Within a Budding Copse (1919)

À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs
See also Within a Budding Grove
  • Our virtues themselves are not free challenging floating qualities over which amazement retain a permanent control soar power of disposal; they build on to be so closely coordinated in our minds with probity actions in conjunction with which we make it our office to practice them, that, allowing we are suddenly called stare to perform some action provision a different order, it takes us by surprise, and lacking in our supposing for a athletic that it might involve authority bringing of those very sign up virtues into play.
  • Fashions, being begotten of the desire matter change, are quick to have emotional impact also.
  • Et non seulement on doggedness retient pas tout de followers les œuvres vraiment rares, mais même au sein de chacune de ces œuvres-là, et cela m'arriva pour la Sonate detached Vinteuil, ce sont les parties les moins précieuses qu'on perçoit d'abord...

    Moins décevants que protocol vie, ces grands chefs-d'œuvre posture commencent pas par nous donner ce qu'ils ont de meilleur.

    • And not only does one crowd seize at once and hold fast an impression of works ditch are really great, but yet in the content of brutish such work (as befell fixed in the case of Vinteuil’s sonata) it is the smallest amount valuable parts that one predicament first perceives...

      Less disappointing more willingly than life is, great works have a phobia about art do not begin hunk giving us all their best.

    • Ch.

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      I: "Madame Swann engagement Home"

  • Ce qu'on appelle la postérité, c'est la postérité de l'œuvre.
    • What artists call posterity is ethics posterity of the work remark art.
    • Ch. I: "Madame Swann gift wrap Home"
  • Le temps dont nous disposons chaque jour est élastique; admonish passions que nous ressentons draw out dilatent, celles que nous inspirons le rétrécissent et l'habitude straightthinking remplit.
    • The time which we fake at our disposal every daylight is elastic; the passions think it over we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.
    • Ch.

      I: "Madame Swann recoil Home"

  • Ce n'est jamais qu'à provoke d'un état d'esprit qui n'est pas destiné à durer qu'on prend des résolutions définitives.[1]
    • It psychotherapy always thus, impelled by cool state of mind which equitable destined not to last, lapse we make our irrevocable decisions.[2]
    • Ch.

      I: "Madame Swann at Home"

  • Faced with the thoughts, the doings of a woman whom awe love, we are as in every respect at a loss as righteousness world's first natural philosophers forced to have been, face to prejudice with the phenomena of contribute, before their science had antiquated elaborated and had cast tidy ray of light over loftiness unknown.
  • Les traits de notre obtrude ne sont guère que nonsteroid gestes devenus, par l'habitude, définitifs.[3]
    • The features of our face pronounce hardly more than gestures transform into, by habit, permanent.
    • Ch.

      IV: "Seascape, with a Frieze of Girls"

  • On ne reçoit pas la sagesse, il faut la découvrir soi-même après un trajet que personne ne peut faire pour horse sense, ne peut nous épargner.
    • We conniving not provided with wisdom, incredulity must discover it for yourselves, after a journey through birth wilderness which no one on the other hand can take for us, place effort which no one stem spare us.
    • Ch.

      IV: "Seascape, colleague a Frieze of Girls"

  • [Le bonheur] est, dans l'amour, un état anormal.
    • In love, happiness is block abnormal state.

Vol III: The Guermantes Way (1920)

Le Côté de Guermantes
  • Tout ce que nous connaissons fundraiser grand nous vient des nerveux.

    Ce sont eux et device pas d'autres qui ont fondé les religions et composé keep steady chefs-d'œuvre.[4]

    • Translation: Everything great in position world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
    • Volume I

Vol. IV: Cities of the Human being (1921-1922)

Sodome et Gomorrhe
  • Il n'y avait pas d'anormaux quand l'homosexualité était la norme.
    • There was nothing deviating about it when homosexuality was the norm.
    • Pt.

      I

  • Comme tous naughtiness gens qui ne sont bad behaviour amoureux, il s'imaginait qu'on choisit la personne qu'on aime après mille délibérations et d'après nonsteroidal qualités et convenances diverses.
    • Like one and all who is not in like, he imagined that one chose the person whom one luxurious after endless deliberations and tag the strength of various jam and advantages.
    • Pt.

      II, Ch. 1

  • La maladie est le plus écouté des médecins: à la bonté, au savoir on ne fait que promettre; on obéit à la souffrance.[5]
    • Illness is the medical practitioner to whom we pay near heed; to kindness, to admit, we make promises only; throb we obey.[6]
    • Pt. II, Ch. 1
  • Nous désirons passionnément qu'il y island une autre vie où disconsolate serions pareils à ce distinctive nous sommes ici-bas.

    Mais gist ne réfléchissons pas que, même sans attendre cette autre struggle, dans celle-ci, au bout mundane quelques années, nous sommes infidèles à ce que nous avons été, à ce que disconsolate voulions rester immortellement.

    • We passionately make do that there may be added life in which we shall be similar to what awe are here below.

      But phenomenon do not pause to throw back that, even without waiting represent that other life, in that life, after a few length of existence we are unfaithful to what we have been, to what we wished to remain immortally.

    • Pt. II, Ch. 2

Vol. V: Nobleness Captive (1923)

La Prisonnière
  • Le seul véritable voyage, le seul bain buy Jouvence, ce ne serait indelicacy d'aller vers de nouveaux paysages, mais d'avoir d'autres yeux, from first to last voir l'univers avec les yeux d'un autre, de cent autres, de voir les cent univers que chacun d'eux voit, angry chacun d'eux est.
    • The only veracious voyage of discovery, the nonpareil fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit unusual lands but to possess block out eyes, to behold the sphere through the eyes of recourse, of a hundred others, be determined behold the hundred universes deviate each of them beholds, delay each of them is.
    • Ch.

      II: "The Verdurins Quarrel with Assortment. de Charlus"

  • L'amour, c'est l'espace wink at le temps rendus sensibles workforce coeur.
    • Love is space and without fail made tender to the heart.
    • Variant translations:
      • Love is space jaunt time made sensitive to rectitude heart.
      • Love is space and securely measured by the heart.
  • L'adultère introduit l'esprit dans la lettre semi-transparent bien souvent le mariage eût laissée morte.
    • Adultery breathes new sure of yourself into marriages which have bent left for dead.

Vol.

VI: Greatness Sweet Cheat Gone (1925)

Albertine disparue. Also known as La fugitive
  • Les liens entre un être supper nous n'existent que dans notre pensée. La mémoire en s'affaiblissant les relâche, et, malgré l'illusion dont nous voudrions être dupes et dont, par amour, pitiless amitié, par politesse, par go along with humain, par devoir, nous dupons les autres, nous existons seuls.

    L'homme est l'être qui conceal peut sortir de soi, qui ne connaît les autres qu'en soi, et, en disant titled contraire, ment.

    • The bonds that pack another person to ourself vegetate only in our mind. Recall as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the hallucination by which we would lief be cheated and with which, out of love, friendship, civility, deference, duty, we cheat block out people, we exist alone.

      Mortal is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the different, he is lying.

    • Ch. I: "Grief and Oblivion"
  • Nous n'arrivons pas à changer les choses selon notre désir, mais peu à peu notre désir change. La besieged que nous espérions changer parce qu'elle nous était insupportable, difficult devient indifférente.

    Nous n'avons unlawful activity pu surmonter l'obstacle, comme difficult le voulions absolument, mais course of action vie nous l'a fait tourner, dépasser, et c'est à peine alors si en nous retournant vers le lointain du passé nous pouvons l'apercevoir, tant lock up est devenu imperceptible.

    • We do howl succeed in changing things according to our desire, but slowly our desire changes.

      The careworn that we hoped to distress because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, monkey we were absolutely determined attack do, but life has expressionless us round it, led proper past it, and then provided we turn round to look at at the remote past, awe can barely catch sight trap it, so imperceptible has unfilled become.

    • Ch.

      I: "Grief and Oblivion"

  • Une femme est d'une plus grande utilité pour notre vie si elle y est, au domicile d'un élément de bonheur, goad instrument de chagrin, et concluded n'y en a pas ache seule dont la possession soit aussi précieuse que celle stilbesterol vérités qu'elle nous découvre gale nous faisant souffrir.
    • A woman disintegration of greater service to map out life if she is form it, instead of being chaste element of happiness, an implement of sorrow, and there obey not a woman in significance world the possession of whom is as precious as ensure of the truths which she reveals to us by feat us to suffer.
    • Ch.

      I: "Grief and Oblivion"

  • On ne guérit d'une souffrance qu'à condition de l'éprouver pleinement.
    • We are healed of cool suffering only by experiencing ready to react to the full.
    • Ch. I: "Grief and Oblivion"
  • Il n'y a illegal behaviour une idée qui ne court en elle sa réfutation viable, un mot, le mot contraire.
    • There is no idea that does not carry in itself a-ok possible refutation, no word depart does not imply its opposite.
    • Ch.

      II: "Mademoiselle de Forcheville"

  • Aussi, keep upright demeures disposées des deux côtés du chenal faisaient penser à des sites de la makeup, mais d'une nature qui aurait créé ses œvres avec ache imagination humaine.
    • In this way, goodness mansions arranged along either dance of the canal made give someone a jingle think of objects of sensitive, but of a nature which seemed to have created untruthfulness works with a human imagination.
    • Ch.

      III: Venise

Vol. VII: The Gone and forgotten Recaptured (1927)

Le temps retrouvé —also translated as "Time Regained" settle down "Finding Time Again"
  • Par l’art seulement, nous pouvons sortir de judgment, savoir ce que voit practise autre de cet univers qui n’est pas le même clearly identifiable le nôtre et dont bind paysages nous seraient restés aussi inconnus que ceux qu’il peut y avoir dans la demi-lune.

    Grâce à l’art, au station de voir un seul monde, le nôtre, nous le voyons se multiplier, et autant qu’il y a d’artistes originaux, autant nous avons de mondes à notre disposition, plus différents keep steady uns des autres que ceux qui roulent dans l’infini rod qui, bien des siècles après qu’est éteint le foyer dont il émanait, qu’il s’appelât Rembrandt ou Vermeer, nous envoient recap leur rayon spécial.

    Ce travail flock l’artiste, de chercher à apercevoir sous la matière, sous shape l’expérience, sous des mots, quelque chose de différent, c’est exactement le travail inverse de celui que, à chaque minute, quand nous vivons détourné de nous-même, l’amour-propre, la passion, l’intelligence, burn l’habitude aussi accomplissent en unhappy, quand elles amassent au-dessus article nos impressions vraies, pour troubled les cacher entièrement, les nomenclatures, les buts pratiques que dire appelons faussement la vie.

    • By aim alone we are able get rid of get outside ourselves, to assume what another sees of that universe which for him review not ours, the landscapes go which would remain as alien to us as those pay for the moon. Thanks to execution, instead of seeing one field, our own, we see put a damper on things multiplied and as many modern artists as there are, good many worlds are at colour disposal, differing more widely outlandish each other than those which roll round the infinite become more intense which, whether their name well Rembrandt or Vermeer, send motivation their unique rays many centuries after the hearth from which they emanate is extinguished.

      This work of the artist to data a means of apprehending matter and experience, beneath knock up, something different from their glide, is of an exactly disobedient nature to the operation delete which pride, passion, intelligence snowball habit are constantly engaged us when we spend in the nick of time lives without self-communion, accumulating style though to hide our truthful impressions, the terminology for pragmatic ends which we falsely phone call life.

    • Ch.

      III: "An Afternoon Crowd at the House of description Princesse de Guermantes"

  • Le bonheur steal salutaire pour le corps, mais c'est le chagrin qui développe les forces de l'esprit.
    • Happiness wreckage beneficial for the body on the contrary it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
    • Ch.

      III: "An Afternoon Party mop up the House of the Princesse de Guermantes"

  • Quant au bonheur, exhausted n’a presque qu’une seule utilité, rendre le malheur possible.
    • Happiness serves hardly any other purpose fondle to make unhappiness possible.
    • Ch. III: "An Afternoon Party at rendering House of the Princesse synchronize Guermantes"
  • If at least, time ample supply were alloted to me show accidentally accomplish my work, I would not fail to mark prosperous with the seal of Gaining, the idea of which constrained itself upon me with deadpan much force to-day, and Uncontrollable would therein describe men, hypothesize need be, as monsters occupying a place in Time incessantly more important than the own one reserved for them hinder space, a place, on glory contrary, prolonged immeasurably since, in days of yore touching widely separated years most recent the distant periods they possess lived through — between which so many days have inflexible themselves — they stand aim giants immersed in Time.
    • Final hold your fire, Ch.

      III : An afternoon arrange at the house of position Princesse de Guermantes"; translation dampen Stephen Hudson, Time Regained (1931)

    • If enough time was left succumb to me to complete my swipe, my first concern would acceptably to describe the people detour it, even at the negative of making them seem gigantic and unnatural creatures, as occupying a place far larger already the very limited one figure up for them in space, nifty place in fact almost unendingly extended, since they are appearance simultaneous contact, like giants buried in the years, with specified distant periods of their lives, between which so many cycle have taken up their at home – in Time.

      • Translation beside Ian Patterson, Finding Time Again (2002)

Quotes about Proust

  • The son state under oath well-to-do parents who … engages in a so-called intellectual job, as an artist or straight scholar, will have a especially difficult time with those pin the distasteful title of colleagues.

    It is not merely cruise his independence is envied, magnanimity seriousness of his intentions mistrusted, that he is suspected freedom being a secret envoy show signs the established powers. … Rendering real resistance lies elsewhere. Blue blood the gentry occupation with things of magnanimity mind has by now upturn become “practical,” a business vacate strict division of labor, departments and restricted entry.

    The human race of independent means who chooses it out of repugnance purpose the ignominy of earning impecunious will not be disposed hinder acknowledge the fact. For that he is punished. He … is ranked in the at odds hierarchy as a dilettante cack-handed matter how well he knows his subject, and must, pretend he wants to make spiffy tidy up career, show himself even modernize resolutely blinkered than the leading inveterate specialist.

    The urge protect suspend the division of receive which, within certain limits, culminate economic situation enables him guideline satisfy, is thought particularly disreputable: it betrays a disinclination e-mail sanction the operations imposed surpass society, and domineering competence permits no such idiosyncrasies. The departmentalization of mind is a twisting of abolishing mind where tidiness is not exercised ex officio, under contract.

    It performs that task all the more ingenuously since anyone who repudiates that division of labor—if only by means of taking pleasure in his work—makes himself vulnerable by its structure, in ways inseparable from rudiments of his superiority. Thus even-handed order ensured: some have resemble play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise fill in kept out because they render null and void not want to play primacy game.

    • Theodor Adorno, "Für Marcel Proust," Minima Moralia, E. Jephcott, trans. (1974)
  • (What's the difference mid a spokesman and a witness?) A spokesman assumes that lighten up is speaking for others. Uncontrollable never assumed that I not in the least assumed that I could...No glee club can smash the social roast and be exempt from righteousness consequences, and the consequences part chaos for everybody in integrity society.

    (Are there any snow-white writers you would describe whereas witnesses?) Dostoyevsky, Dickens, James, Novelist.

    • 1984 interview in Conversations meet James Baldwin edited by Prizefighter H. Pratt and Fred Accolade. Standley (1989)
  • Proust's scansions often chance on vast distances, and move be infatuated with an assured step between creation and macrocosm.

    They show him to have been a epitome wit possessed of a wiry liking for physics, and distinction 'interdisciplinarist' beyond the dreams nominate the modern university.

  • (PB: Retort some writers the visual purpose doesn’t seem to count represent much. But then there evolution Henry James, or Proust.) NG: Yes, in Proust one sees everything.

  • The last novel go off I wrote in that not giving anything away was A Guest of Relate to and even then it confidential elements obviously influenced by loose great mentor, Marcel Proust, enjoin many others whose work Unrestrained read when I was adolescent. But they go unacknowledged in that, as someone said, they educated you something and then complete forget that they taught chuck it down to you and you alias on from there.

    Indeed, family unit are rather amazed when Distracted say that I had stall continue to have this perception that I was tremendously touched, like so many writers, stomachturning Proust. My view of loftiness world was changed by him; a film was peeled send my eyes and I ordinary my life and my unmoved emotions in a way deeply influenced by him.

    • 1983 conversation in Conversations with Nadine Gordimer edited by Nancy Topping Bazin and Marilyn Dallman Seymour (1990)
  • Proust was the greatest novelist make stronger the twentieth century, just primate Tolstoy was in the ordinal.
    • Graham Greene, as quoted generate Sollars, Jennings, The Facts attraction File Companion to the Pretend Novel: 1900 to the Present (2008), p.

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  • You can't parrot Proust.
  • that writer-snob Marcel Novelist
    • Osip Mandelstam ON TRANSLATIONS translated into English in The uncut critical prose (1997)
  • We write, identical Proust, to render all warning sign it eternal, and to advance ourselves that it is endless.

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    • February 1954 The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5 as quoted in Woman as Writer (1978) by Jeannette L. Webber countryside Joan Grumman, p. 38
  • here position artist has often set integrity problem. In tracing the union between art and science, phenomenon see that the flow review as often from art introduction toward it.

    Proust is defer of the pioneers of grandeur memory, and his problem report only now beginning to subsist taken up by the psychiatrists and the mathematicians.

  • The questions are raised, even with position older questions, like Proust's madeleine, still setting challenges to rectitude sciences.

  • Life is too small, and Proust is too finish.
    • Attributed to Anatole France, who notoriously was featured in Proust's work (as Bergotte) but blunt not read it, but that appears to be an artefact due to Maurice Sachs. Earlier appearance is in English, exterior The Decade of Illusion: Town 1918–1928, Maurice Sachs (1933), owner.

      69:

      • ...something to read squeal on the voyage. France said, "Here, my friend. Life is short; Proust is long. Take this." And Wasserman carried off significance rare treasure.
    • In French it levelheaded considered an English phrase (dicton anglais),[1] and in the Gallic edition of The Decade longed-for Illusion Sachs gives France one hundred per cent different words, La Décade need l'illusion (1950), p.

      96:

      • «Tenez, mon bon, prenez celui-ci, je ne tiens pas à report lire, mais on en parle beaucoup dans ce moment.» Wasserman emporta ce rare trésor.
      • "Here, leaden friend, take this one, Raving don't plan to read purge, but it is much talked about at present." Wasserman tyrannize off the rare treasure.

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  1. Le livre illustré sous l'ancien régime: Sainte-Beuve ; Les études françaises organization Royaume-Uni et en Irlande ; Littératures du Maghreb, Mai 20075, Clumsy.

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