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“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
“Two traits of Albertine’s character came back to me at that moment, one to comfort and the other to appall me, for we can find everything in our memory: it is a kind of pharmacy or chemical laboratory, where one’s hand may fall at any moment on a sedative drug or a dangerous poison.”
― The Prisoner: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 5
― The Prisoner: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 5
“The boundlessness of space nurtured a dark new humanity in its dark embrace.”
― The Dark Forest
― The Dark Forest
“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
“It had seemed so safe, thinking of her. Ghost, air, nothingness, a thing you could play with easily and safely at any time of day or night, she had been that, and then suddenly she put her hand out and wrung the heart thus. ...Could things thrust their hands up and grip one; was there no safety?”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
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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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