Marcel Proust.

"Everything that seems to us imperishable tends towards decay..."

Marcel Proust, born July 10, 1871, was a French novelist, critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu; with the previous English title translation of Remembrance of Things Past), originally published in French in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to …