Marcel Proust Quotes
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
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. 733.
In her youth she was known as one of the most beautiful women in the world. When India became a democracy, her husband and she, resigned their royal positions. Unlike most of the other Indian royals who disappeared from politics and government, she campaigned and won a seat in Parliament.
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.