Modern innovation springs from a deep understanding of physics, electronics, math, chemistry and biology--not Proust.
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The cork walls in his New York study, for example, were inspired by Proust.
Proust and philosophy have something in common: neither leaps to the mind as a compelling subject for television.
Invoking countryman Marcel Proust, Mr. Mars describes certain "madeleine moments" of triggered memories.
In his writing style, Mr Powell was closer to Ernest Hemingway than Proust.
Marcel Proust believed he could regain time lost through his writing, using art to overcome the corroding power of time.
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She has translated a number of French philosophy and literature works, most notably Swann's Way by Marcel Proust and Flaubert's Madame Bovary.
For this reason, Bonnard has been compared with another French artist obsessed with memory and the passage of time: the writer Marcel Proust.
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This has cut into her reading she was working her way through Proust and had finished James Joyce's "Ulysses, " though she didn't much care for it.
After all, Marcel Proust built literary immortality on knowing it .
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Forster loved Richard Wagner and felt an affinity with Marcel Proust, a writer for whom musical phrasing was a paradigm both for art and for life.
We spoke to him about his own fashion choices ("comfortable"), favorite endurance sports (reading Proust) and darkest secrets (well, it's a chair fetish, and currently under control).
For Ms Ferguson, Marcel Proust best embodies the idea of French cuisine as art because he could conjure a whole world out of a cup of tea.
We may not all become talented writers like Marcel Proust, but like him, we will have a tool that will help us overcome the limitations of our memory, even transcend time.
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Made for the Comtesse Greffulhe, one of the inspirations for Proust's Duchesse de Guermantes, it showcases the designer's creative eye: metallic, crystal-beaded trompe-l'oeil cords appear to tie the front and back panels of the gown together.
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The picture has a stately, waltz-like rhythm, as the narrator (Marcello Mazzarella, a dead ringer for the real Proust) guides us through the declining fortunes of his friends under the shadow of the First World War.
This is often achieved by a lack of finish: even in the most highly polished, conventional picture here, the 1880 portrait of Antonin Proust, the ungloved fingers of the left hand are swift strokes, lacking detail.
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