Marcel Proust Quotes
Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps or old snuff-boxes, even to pictures or statues. But the example of other collections should be a warning to us to diversify, to have not one woman only but several.
Proust, Marcel. In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 5: The Captive & The Fugitive. Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Modern Library, 1993, p. 209.
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time; earlier rendered as Remembrance of Things Past), published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century.
