Marcel Proust Long Autograph Letter Signed To Georges De Lauris. 8 Pages

For many years, the autograph library has specialized in the sale of autograph letters and manuscripts. Signed autograph letter to georges de lauris. "If life brings troubles, it is comforted because real life is elsewhere, not in life itself, nor after, but outside. Long letter of advice with mystical accents and the glory of work. "My little georges, I'll let you know in two words what I haven't told anyone yet.

Having had a bronchitis beginning at versailles and displacing the street tanks under my windows I returned to bet under the work of the dentist to whom we rented 3. And literally asphyxiated by a poorly regulated water calorifer.

As soon as I can get up, I'll save myself, I don't know where, but first I'll go see you. Today closes the exhibition that among all I would have liked to see, of the two painters of which I am the most "loving" Greeko and Monticelli at the autumn salon and I could not go! Before your accident when I didn't think I'd come back to bet it served me well and you were very helpful! I thought to myself that wherever I was and even if it had been in venise I would have returned 48 hours for this exhibition which is perhaps not sublime but which would have been so fruitful for me because it corresponded to a moment so determined of my desire. And I didn't even have the material opportunity to get rid of it in a small car, which I would have done without modesty. I think I'm gonna get better, I think I'm gonna go see you. Georges, when you can, work. Ruskin said somewhere a sublime thing that must be before your mind every day, when he said that the two great commandments of God on the 2. Is almost entirely of him but it doesn't matter were. "work while you still have the light." "Be merciful while you still have mercy. Leon blum I swear to you, I never said anything so good. Command from st jean comes from this sentence: for soon comes the night when nothing can be done (I quote wrong). I'm already, George, half in this night despite temporary appearances that mean nothing. But you, you have the light, you will have it for many years, work. So if life brings troubles we console ourselves because real life is elsewhere, not in life itself, nor after, but outside, if a term that derives its origin from space has a meaning in a world that is freed from it. And mercy you have had better than it, love so sweet that your poor mother's death at times doesn't seem awful to me when I think of all the hope she has left, all the accuracy with which you filled her vow. As for your life with your father, you know what I think and that it's my pleasure to think about it.

With me you are very good if I consult my gratitude, less affectionate than good though you think otherwise, and good with restrictions that are due to your character without serenity. But good yet a thousand times more than I deserve. Farewell dear Georges, forgiveness of this evangelical sermon. But accidents like yours, which I paint constantly, must be a warning. Work because God has left you the light.

No dear georges, no need to search in léon blum, or even in spite of what you will swear our friends, in claude anet, you will find nothing so good there. This does not prevent the works of ruskin from being often stupid, manic, stressful, false, ridiculous, but it is always estimable and always great. He was very admired by George Eliot who, despite what léon blum may think, was worth the marguerites and, who knows, perhaps the rosnys and who spoke of "these great works that make it possible to reconcile the despair of oneself with the delicious feeling of a life outside of oneself.

Dear Georges, it is a great fatigue to write, but it is nice to recall beautiful thoughts that he knows to someone who understands them and can feed on them, and who considers the literature of our knowledge more or less famous than to a very relative value. From any court to you and now whatever coughing endlessly and having fever, between three crosses open at one o'clock in the morning to fight against the water calorifer. "It's not all worth love etc. You will tell the crown lucian that I love him very much and that I point out to him that all the legends I sent him two years ago, forage by friends common to him and to me, that is to say by friends to me and admirers to him, because he has no friends, sweats them and takes them all.

Now lucian must find them funny and find that I wasn't so stupid to send them to her. The exhibition monticelli, the Greek, Bresdin, Chifflart, which is held at the great palace of the fields elysed of the 1. October to November 8, 1908. Consult our manuscripts The Autograph Gallery of Centuries specializes in the sale and expertise of autograph letters and manuscripts of the great personalities of past centuries.

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