A Quotable Proust

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This section contains in English and the original French some of the novelist's "greatest hits," trenchant and often amusing observations about the human condition. Although the quotations available are already extensive, we will continue to add to them. They now come mainly from In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu), but also contain quotations from Proust's other writings.

 

“What compels my admiration for M. Proust’s work is that it is great art based on analysis. . . . I don’t think there is in [all] creative literature an example of power of analysis such as this.”
— Joseph Conrad
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