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Marcel Proust

  • Mr Memehas quotedlast year
    A strange thing, indeed, that those words, "two or three times," nothing more than a few words, words uttered in the air, at a distance, could so lacerate a man's heart, as if they had actually pierced it, could sicken a man, like a poison that he had drunk.
  • Mr Memehas quotedlast year
    For often we find a day, in one, that has strayed from another season, and makes us live in that other, summons at once into our presence and makes us long for its peculiar pleasures, and interrupts the dreams that we were in process of weaving, by inserting, out of its turn, too early or too late, this leaf, torn from another chapter, in the interpolated calendar of Happiness.
  • New Neverlanderhas quoted2 years ago
    I would ask myself what o'clock it could be; I could hear the whistling of trains, which, now nearer and now farther off, punctuating the distance like the note of a bird in a forest, shewed me in perspective the deserted countryside through which a traveller would be hurrying towards the nearest station: the path that he followed being fixed for ever in his memory by the general excitement due to being in a strange place, to doing unusual things, to the last words of conversation, to farewells exchanged beneath an unfamiliar lamp which echoed still in his ears amid the silence of the night; and to the delightful prospect of being once again at home.
  • New Neverlanderhas quoted2 years ago
    For many years have now elapsed since the Combray days, when, coming in from the longest and latest walks, I would still be in time to see the reflection of the sunset glowing in the panes of my bedroom window.
  • New Neverlanderhas quoted2 years ago
    and of the insolent indifference of a clock that chattered on at the top of its voice as though I were not there;
  • Robbie Tylerhas quotedlast year
    that one must return
  • Lazar704has quotedlast year
    imagine that they can taste in reality what has charmed their fancy.
  • Lazar704has quotedlast year
    apt to grow confused
  • Lazar704has quotedlast year
    shut in from the outer world
  • Lazar704has quotedlast year
    Custom! that skilful but unhurrying manager
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