Marcel Proust Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: July 10, 1871 - November 18, 1922
Birthday: July 10
Death: November 18
When a belief vanishes, there survives it -- more and more vigorously so as to cloak the absence of the power, now lost to us, of imparting reality to new things -- a fetishistic attachment to the old things which it did once animate, as if it was in them and not in ourselves that the divine spark resided, and as if our present incredulity had a contingent cause -- the death of the gods.
source: Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.581, Modern Library
topic: Reality, Attachment, Old Things, Incredulity
