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In the case of Albertine, I felt that I should never discover anything, that, out of that tangled mass of details of fact and falsehood, I should neve...more

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At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could stop there, th...more

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For in this way Swann was kept in the state of painful agitation which had once before been effective in making his interest blossom into love, on the...more

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His jealousy, like an octopus which throws out a first, then a second, and finally a third tentacle, fastened itself irremovably first to that moment,...more

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[T]his jealousy gave him, if anything, an agreeable chill, as, to the sad Parisian who is leaving Venice behind him to return to France, a last mosqui...more

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He recognised that all the period of Odette's life which had elapsed before she first met him, a period of which he had never sought to form any pictu...more

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... seeking to indicate to her by the extent of his gratitude the corresponding intensity of the pleasures which it was in her power to bestow on him,...more

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Then his jealousy rejoiced at the discovery, as though that jealousy had had an independent existence, fiercely egotistical, gluttonous of every thing...more

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One morning indeed, I felt a sudden misgiving that she not only had left the house but had gone for good: I had just heard the sound of a door which s...more