"When one feels oneself smitten by love for a woman, one ought to say to oneself, —What are her surroundings? What has been her life? All one's future happiness lies in the answer."
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.