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Picture of Marcel Proust. Marcel Proust in 1900

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Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 - 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, critic and essayist best known for his monumental À la recherche du temps perdu (in search of lost time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past). It was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927.

❝Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead.❞ [+]

❝The only paradise is paradise lost.❞ [+]

❝The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes...❞ [+]

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