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“The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.”

“But certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we find it easier to refer to their fictitious testimony than to that of a reality which we have almost entirely forgotten.”

“We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.”

The narrator is such a pathetic little guy, I love him. Also, Proust has such incredible insight on the human psyche, human emotions specifically. I adored his exploration of the feeling of homesickness.