"

As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-places deep within us that we would not have known...more

"

I put down my cup and examine my own mind. It is for it to discover the truth. But how? What an abyss of uncertainty whenever the mind feels that some...more

"

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.

"

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

"

... Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth...

"

In Swann's mind, however, these words, meeting no opposition, settled and hardened until they assumed the indestructibility of a truth so indubitable ...more

"

Swann could at once detect in this story one of those fragments of literal truth which liars, when taken by surprise, console themselves by introducin...more

"

We would like the truth to be revealed to us by novel signs, not by a sentence, a sentence similar to those which we have constantly repeated to ourse...more