Marcel Proust Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: July 10, 1871 - November 18, 1922
Birthday: July 10
Death: November 18
We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is from without, when we are least expecting it, that it gives us its cruel stab and wounds us forever.
source: Marcel Proust (2015). “Cities of the Plain (Sodom and Gomorrah)”, p.550, Booklassic
topic: Truth, Ideas, Giving, Least Expecting
