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‘a memory that retained everything would essentially retain nothing’

‘i get the same feeling in the library. it’s so very much like picking berries—the peaceful field of books’

‘placing trust in a word like border had been a mistake, a trap.’

‘i’m well beyond you now, and traveling very fast.’

‘i loved him, but i didn’t need him, and i thought that was the way it was supposed to be.’

‘there were no reasons so mighty that they could override the desire to be in accord with the tides and the passage of seasons and the rhythms underlying everything around me.’

why am i getting the feeling that men trying to protect mina by excluding her is going to have the opposite effect

this is better than middlemarch

i hate swann

i am reading this as a midway companion to volume one of in search of lost time