living stilts, representing the length of time they have lived (357). My chief concern will be to describe people as they exist in Time (358)
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The work will be marked by the form of Time
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I shall work at night, writing a book as long as the Arabian Nights or Saint-Simon’s Mémoires (353
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Why a large proportion of the suffering in men’s lives is caused by women ‘who were not their type’ (331). Another Mme de Saint-Euverte: a new blossoming of the Saint
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time, people mistake the social status of men like Bloch and Swann; these errors too are dependent on Time, but they are a phenomenon of memory, not a social phenomenon
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The only true paradise is a paradise that we have lost
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The magic of literature (23)! The Goncourt journal shows me that I am not fitted for looking and listening to surface details (24), but this is because I am more interested in psychology (25). Memoirs
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Moreover, the fact that we occupy an ever larger place in Time is something that everybody feels, and this universality could only delight me, since this was the truth, the truth suspected by everybody, that it was my task to try to elucidate
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week. Yet while all these pointless duties, to which I was always ready to sacrifice the real one, had left my head after a few minutes, the idea of my construction never left me for an instant
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son, and I wrote to her too, then, having sacrificed a genuine duty to the factitious obligation to show that I was sensitive and polite, I fell back exhausted, closed my eyes and could do nothing but vegetate for a week