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Book cover for A Reader's Guide to Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time'
This tension is exacerbated in a novel possessing the bulk of the recherche, which, occupying some 3,000 pages, is approximately twice the length of tolstoy’s War and Peace (1865–69).
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Sarah Bakewell
“The great adventure of our epoch, he says, is “to discover who inhabits the world, one individual at a time.”
Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

Marcel Proust
“People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.”
Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

Ernest Hemingway
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

Marcus Aurelius
“Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Erich Fromm
“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.”
Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

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