…In the people whom we love, there is imminent in them a certain dream, which we are not always able to discern, but which we nonetheless pursue… 💙 #Proust #FindingTimeAgain
April 30, 2026 at 5:06 PM
…In the people whom we love, there is imminent in them a certain dream, which we are not always able to discern, but which we nonetheless pursue… 💙 #Proust #FindingTimeAgain
or the starched stiffness of the napkin, which had been more valuable for my spiritual renewal than any number of humanitarian, patriotic, internationalist or metaphysical conversations…” 2/2 p 208 #FindingTimeAgain #Proust 💙
April 20, 2026 at 3:51 PM
or the starched stiffness of the napkin, which had been more valuable for my spiritual renewal than any number of humanitarian, patriotic, internationalist or metaphysical conversations…” 2/2 p 208 #FindingTimeAgain #Proust 💙
of the past has just, on three separate occasions, been recreated in me. Was it no more than a moment of the past? Perhaps it was a great deal more; something common both to past and present, is much more essential than either of them. 3/3 p197 #FindingTimeAgain #Proust
April 18, 2026 at 2:27 PM
of the past has just, on three separate occasions, been recreated in me. Was it no more than a moment of the past? Perhaps it was a great deal more; something common both to past and present, is much more essential than either of them. 3/3 p197 #FindingTimeAgain #Proust
which has no connection with it, or with what existed in me in that moment— exactly as I had been able to find life and society boring because I was judging them according to untruthful memories, whereas I had considerable appetite for living now that a real moment 2/3 #FindingTimeAgain #Proust
April 18, 2026 at 2:27 PM
which has no connection with it, or with what existed in me in that moment— exactly as I had been able to find life and society boring because I was judging them according to untruthful memories, whereas I had considerable appetite for living now that a real moment 2/3 #FindingTimeAgain #Proust
“And perhaps, if just now I thought that Bergotte was wrong when he talked about the joys of the life of the mind, it was because at that moment what I meant by “life of the mind” was the sort of logical reasoning 1/3 p 197 #FindingTimeAgain #Proust
April 18, 2026 at 2:27 PM
“And perhaps, if just now I thought that Bergotte was wrong when he talked about the joys of the life of the mind, it was because at that moment what I meant by “life of the mind” was the sort of logical reasoning 1/3 p 197 #FindingTimeAgain #Proust
meetings inconclusive despite the wishes of both parties, the illusion of the possibility of a greater affection thwarted only by circumstance. p 170 ...He must have been magnificent in those final hours...the G of Guermantes in death he had once again become. p. 173 4/4 #FindingTimeAgain #Proust
April 11, 2026 at 11:39 PM
meetings inconclusive despite the wishes of both parties, the illusion of the possibility of a greater affection thwarted only by circumstance. p 170 ...He must have been magnificent in those final hours...the G of Guermantes in death he had once again become. p. 173 4/4 #FindingTimeAgain #Proust
"And the fact that I had really seen him so seldom, in such diverse settings, in such different circumstances and at such long intervals, in the hall in Balbec, in the cafe at Rivebell, in the cavalry barracks and at the military dinners at Doncieres, 1/4 p 170 #FindingTimeAgain #Proust
April 11, 2026 at 11:39 PM
"And the fact that I had really seen him so seldom, in such diverse settings, in such different circumstances and at such long intervals, in the hall in Balbec, in the cafe at Rivebell, in the cavalry barracks and at the military dinners at Doncieres, 1/4 p 170 #FindingTimeAgain #Proust
the moment of apocalypse, when even stars no longer keep their places? And those sirens, weren’t they Wagnerian?” 5/5 p 71 #Proust #FindingTimeAgain
March 22, 2026 at 5:26 PM
the moment of apocalypse, when even stars no longer keep their places? And those sirens, weren’t they Wagnerian?” 5/5 p 71 #Proust #FindingTimeAgain
on his left forehead, more noble and more mysterious to me than the imprint left in earth by the foot of a giant. And I had not dared ask him a single question and he had addressed only a few simple words to me.” p 70 5/5 Yet everything, the war, has changed everything 💙#Proust #FindingTimeAgain
March 22, 2026 at 3:36 PM
on his left forehead, more noble and more mysterious to me than the imprint left in earth by the foot of a giant. And I had not dared ask him a single question and he had addressed only a few simple words to me.” p 70 5/5 Yet everything, the war, has changed everything 💙#Proust #FindingTimeAgain