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“These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I was going to write. But as soon as I asked myself the question, and tried to discover some subject to which I could impart a philosophical significance of infinite value, my mind would stop like a clock, my consciousness would be faced with a blank, I would feel either that I was wholly devoid of talent or perhaps that some malady of the brain was hindering its development.”
― Swann’s Way
― Swann’s Way
“The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were only a thin slice among contiguous impressions which formed our life at that time; the memory of a certain image is but regret for a certain moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fleeting, alas, as the years.”
― Swann’s Way
― Swann’s Way
“in my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them”
― Swann’s Way
― Swann’s Way
“People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.”
― Swann’s Way
― Swann’s Way
“Even the simple act which we describe as 'seeing someone we know' is, to some extent, an intellectual process. We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we already formed about him, and in the complete picture of him which we compose in our minds those ideas have certainly the principal place. In the end they come to fill out so completely the curve of his cheeks, to follow so exactly the line of his nose, they blend so harmoniously in the sound of his voice that these seem to be no more than a transparent envelope, so that each time we see the face or hear the voice it is our own ideas of him which we recognize and to which we listen.”
― Swann’s Way
― Swann’s Way
Liza’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Liza’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
131 books
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2 friends
667 books
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18 friends
266 books
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15 friends
63 books
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9 friends
31 books
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1 friend
53 books
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2 friends
62 books
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1 friend
0 books
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1 friend
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