Meandering to and fro . . .

Today is the birthday of Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (July 10, 1871 – November 18, 1922), novelist, critic and essayist. He is best known as Marcel Proust, author of the novel, À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past).

"A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves." - Marcel Proust

"In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life." - Marcel Proust

"A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it." - Marcel Proust

"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time." - Marcel Proust

"In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life." - Marcel Proust

"Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees." - Marcel Proust


"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust

"Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things." - Marcel Proust

"The only paradise is paradise lost." - Marcel Proust

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