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Schriftsteller, sein Romanzyklus "Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit" gilt als eines der bedeutendsten Werke der Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts, "Freuden und Tage", "Nachgeahmtes und Vermischtes" (Frankreich, 1871 - 1922).

Marcel Proust · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Marcel Proust wäre heute 153 Jahre, 2 Monate, 29 Tage oder 55.974 Tage alt.

Geboren am 10.07.1871 in Paris
Gestorben am 18.11.1922 in Paris
Sternzeichen: ♋ Krebs

• For a long time I used to go to bed early.

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• For if unhappiness develops the forces of the mind, happiness alone is salutary to the body.

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• Habit is a second nature that prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

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• Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

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• In search of lost time.

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• 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.

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• It is desire that engenders belief, if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that create beliefs end only with our own life.

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• Love is space and time measured by the heart.

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• Many of our irrevocable decisions are made in a very transient mood.

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• Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years' time.

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• One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

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• One of those telegrams of which M. de Guermantes had wittily fixed the formula: 'Cannot come, lie follows'.

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• Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

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• Our deeds are our good and bad angels, the shadows of destiny at our side.

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• Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.

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• Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists.

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• The character we exhibit in the latter half of our life need not necessarily be, though it often is, our original character, developed further, dried up, exaggerated, or diminished. It can be its exact opposite, like a suit worn inside out.

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• The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.

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• The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

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• The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up the rest.

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