Meandering . . .

Today is the birthday of Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (July 10, 1871 – November 18, 1922), author. He is best known as the author of In Search of Lost Time (in French À la recherche du temps perdu, also titled Remembrance of Things Past in its original edition), a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction published in seven volumes from 1913 to 1927.

"Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces." - Marcel Proust

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

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust


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

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

Trivia bit: Marcel Proust is another author that stood up for the truth in the Dreyfus Affair.

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