Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust:
(Auteuil (now part of Paris), 10 July 1871 – Paris, 18 November 1922)
French intellectual, novelist, essayist and critic.
Ah, in those earliest days of love, how naturally the kisses spring into life! So closely, in their profusion, do they crowd together that lovers would find it as hard to count the kisses exchanged in an hour as to count the flowers in a meadow in May.
It is that landscape whose individuality sometimes seizes me almost supernaturally powerful in my dreams at night and which I cannot find again when I wake up.
Let us be grateful for people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
