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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 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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But since the facts which I should then have recalled would have been prompted only by an exercise of the will, by my intellectual memory, and since t...more

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Will it ultimately reach the clear surface of my consciousness, this memory, this old, dead moment which the magnetism of an identical moment has trav...more

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Memory, instead of being a duplicate, always present before one's eyes, of the various events of one's life, is rather a void from which at odd moment...more

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When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we sprang come and shower upon us their rich...more

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As with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past.