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No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing...more

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All the products of one period have something in common; the artists who illustrate the poetry of their generation are the same artists who are employ...more

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...but the loss of a memory, like the omission of a phrase during reading, rather than making for uncertainty, can lead to a premature certainty.

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For with the perturbations of memory are linked the intermittencies of the heart.

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...infirmity alone makes us take notice and learn, and enables us to analyse mechanisms of which otherwise we should know nothing. A man who falls str...more

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The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth than the latter to remember what I was before ...more

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A man who, night after night, falls like a lump of lead upon his bed, and ceases to live until the moment when he wakes and rises, will such a man eve...more

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But it was enough if, in my own bed, my sleep was deep and allowed my mind to relax entirely; then it would let go of the map of the place where I had...more

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The reality that I had known no longer existed. The places that we have known belong now only to the little world of space on which we map them for ou...more

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But, when nothing subsists of an old past, after the death of people, after the destruction of things, alone, frailer but more enduring, more immateri...more

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... so in that moment all the flowers in our garden and in M. Swann's park, and the water-lilies on the Vivonne and the good folk of the village and t...more

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I feel that there is much to be said for the Celtic belief that the souls of those whom we have lost are held captive in some inferior being, in an an...more

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And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream.

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And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect must prove futile. The past is hidden somewhe...more

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In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enoug...more