“The individual is steeped in something more general than himself.” #MarcelProust #WithinABuddingGrove

“Artistic genius acts in a similar way to those extremely high temperatures which have the power to split up combinations of atoms which they proceed to combine afresh in a diametrically opposite order, corresponding to another type.” #MarcelProust #WithinABuddingGrove

“For we do not know the whereabouts of what we are seeking, and we often avoid for a long time the place to which, for quite different reasons, everyone has been asking us to go; but we never suspect that we shall see there the very person of whom we are thinking.” #MarcelProust

“... in so far as art brings out certain laws, once an industry has taken those laws and popularised them, the art that was first in the field loses retrospectively a little of its originality.” #MarcelProust #PlaceNames

Proust examines the relationship between desire and fulfillment.

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“The names which designate things correspond invariably to an intellectual notion, alien to our true impressions, and compelling us to eliminate from them everything that is not in keeping with that notion.” #MarcelProust #WithinABuddingGrove

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“…in the communal life that is led by our ideas in the enclosure of our minds, there is a single one of those that makes us most happy which has not first sought, like a real parasite, and won from an alien but neighboring idea the greater part of the strength that it originally lacked” - Proust

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Proust isn’t offering a solution or a philosophy but exploring the ideas of both. The point, though, is that our actions and words might have effects that reach farther than we can predict.

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.
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Life perspectives are changing within the gaze
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It is almost like desire creates a reality but also makes that reality impossible to exist until the desire itself is discarded.

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A person is not themselves alone but a combination of their self and the self in the mind of the person thinking about them.

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“La possibilité de telles heures ne renaîtra jamais pour moi. Mais depuis peu de temps, je recommence à très bien percevoir si je prête l'oreille, les sanglots que j'eus la force de contenir devant mon père et qui n'éclatèrent que quand je me retrouvai seul avec maman. En réalité ils n'ont jamais cessé […].” (Marcel Proust, “Du côté de chez Swann”) #MarcelProust #DuCôtéDeChezSwann #Littérature #Roman

Proust certainly felt strongly about his work, but there is a reverence for the past that feels so unusual and fresh. Proust isn’t saying that innovation in terminology is right or wrong. I think he’s just showing that he understands that point of view.

It’s not about being right or wrong. It’s about exploring different points of view as an avenue for creating interesting characters.

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The comedy in Proust is often missed, but there can be no doubt that Proust is making fun of himself here. Proust’s reputation is snobbish and serious, but it’s hard to see where that reputation came from when you are actually reading his work.

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Whether it is seeing a view from Horsetooth Reservoir with a new love, or watching a favorite comedy with a group of friends. It’s almost as if art can’t truly be appreciated without sharing it. Art and literature is not meant to be enjoyed in isolation. Sharing them further reveals their depths.

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📘 Le côté de Guermantes (🇨🇵 1920) est le troisième tome de la recherche du temps perdu, l’œuvre majeure de Marcel Proust.

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📝 Le narrateur perd sa grand-mère, retrouve Albertine et il est enfin reçu chez les Guermantes. Inutile de s’appesantir sur un classique, a fortiori sur un chef-d’œuvre, mêlant, non sans une pointe d'humour, mélancolie et ironie.

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Proust is not afraid to judge his characters when necessary, but he is always fair. He does not see it as wrong or bad to have interests other than his own. Norpois is not being judged here for getting pleasure out of a discussion about stocks. In fact, Norpois’ pleasure is felt by Marcel. He is able to connect with Norpois’ passion.

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