Marcel Proust Quotes


It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.


Citations

Proust, Marcel. Pleasures and Days. Translated by Louise Varese, Gerard Hopkins, and Barbara Dupee, Doubleday, 1957, p. 45.

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Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust
  • Born: July 10, 1871
  • Died: November 18, 1922
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Novelist, Essayist, Critic

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.