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“How," he pondered, "how was my thought any stupider than all the other thoughts and theories that have been swarming and colliding in the world, ever since the world began?”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“...The asses who might really think that in the starlight of eternity, my [and her] conjunction, somewhere in North America, in the nineteenth century represented but one trillionth of a trillionth part of a pinpoint planet's significance can bray... because the rapture of her identity, placed under the microscope of reality, shows a complex system of those subtle bridges which the senses traverse—laughing, embraced, throwing flowers in the air—between membrane and brain, and which always was and is a form of memory, even at the moment of its perception.
I am weak. I write badly.”
― Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
I am weak. I write badly.”
― Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
“It is not enough in love, as in everyday life, to fear only the future: one must fear the past, which often becomes real to us only after the future, and I am not simply speaking of the past about which we learn only after the event, but of the one we have carried within us for many years, and which we only now learn to read.”
― The Prisoner: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 5
― The Prisoner: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 5
“We belong to the Earth and the sea, you belong to the stars." "Is that bad?" "No. It's very good.”
― The Dark Forest
― The Dark Forest
“He had (like a calculator who means to do nothing else until such time as he has resolved his problem) put down beside him the cigar that, a short while ago, he had had in his mouth, but which he no longer had the necessary freedom of mind to smoke. On remarking the two crouched divinities borne on its arms by the chair set facing, you might've thought the Baron was seeking to solve the riddle of the Sphinx...
Now, the figure to which M. de Charlus was applying, and with such intensity, all his mental powers, was that proposed to him by the lineaments of the young Marquis de Surgis' face. It seemed to be, so profound was M. de Charlus' absorption before it, some heraldic motto, some conundrum, some problem in algebra, the riddle or formula of which he was seeking to penetrate.”
― Sodom and Gomorrah
Now, the figure to which M. de Charlus was applying, and with such intensity, all his mental powers, was that proposed to him by the lineaments of the young Marquis de Surgis' face. It seemed to be, so profound was M. de Charlus' absorption before it, some heraldic motto, some conundrum, some problem in algebra, the riddle or formula of which he was seeking to penetrate.”
― Sodom and Gomorrah
Psycho Proustians
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A place to discuss Proust's novel "In Search of Lost Time" (À la Recherche du Temps Perdu). We are most interested in Proust's theories of sensory per ...more
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