"All the objects which he contemplated with as much curiosity and admiration as gratitude, for if, in absorbing his dreams, they had delivered him from an obsession, they themselves were, in turn, enriched by the absorption; they shewed him the palpable realisation of his fancies, and they interested his mind; they took shape and grew solid before his eyes, and at the same time they soothed his troubled heart."

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Marcel Proust was a French novelist best known for In Search of Lost Time, one of the major works of modern literature. Born in Auteuil near Paris on 1871-07-10, he developed an introspective narrative style that reshaped twentieth-century fiction. He died in Paris on 1922-11-18.

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