In Search of Lost Time, Vol. VI: Time Regained (1927) by Marcel Proust & the Lost Paradises
“I thought her very beautiful: still rich in hopes, full of laughter, formed from those very years which I myself had lost, she was like my own youth.”
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In Search of Lost Time, Vol. V: The Captive (1923) & The Fugitive (1925) by Marcel Proust & the Fraternity of Travel
“So that if happiness, or at least the absence of suffering, can be found, it is not the satisfaction, but the gradual reduction and the eventual extinction of desire that one should seek.”
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In Search of Lost Time, Vol. IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (1921/1922) by Marcel Proust & the Common Oblivion
“A common oblivion obliterates everything… The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth than the latter to remember what I was before it.”
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In Search of Lost Time, Vol. I: Swann’s Way (1913) by Marcel Proust & the Pathways of Perception
“They seemed to me now no more than the purely subjective, impotent, illusory creations of my temperament.”
