Marcel Proust

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.

Photo: Annie Spratt. **Meaning 📚💞:** *This quote describes the very first phase of falling in love:* Kisses arise naturally and spontaneously. They follow one another so quickly that they can no longer be counted. The comparison with *“flowers in a meadow in May”* emphasizes: 🌸 abundance, 🌱 naturalness, ✨ freshness and bloom, ⏳ also a touch of transience. In short: Proust means that budding love feels like something: flowing richly, uninhibited, almost endless, and full of tenderness. **📖 Origin:** This is *‘not a proverb or folk saying’,* but a *‘literary passage’.* The quote comes from Marcel Proust’s novel cycle *“À la recherche du temps perdu” (In Search of Lost Time).* More specifically, it is usually situated in: *“Du côté de chez Swann”,* and within that, *“Un amour de Swann”.* French core formulation: Often the passage is rendered something like this: *« Ah ! dans les premiers temps de l’amour, comme les baisers naissent naturellement! It is very important that you look at the changes you make and how you look at them beforehand. »* **👤 Author:** *Marcel Proust (1871–1922).* French writer. Best known as the author of *“À la recherche du temps perdu”.*

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.