Novel · Modernist literatureThe only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.Marcel ProustIn Search of Lost Time · 1922★ 7.0
Novel · Modernist literatureThe bonds between ourselves and another person exist only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.Marcel ProustIn Search of Lost Time · 1922★ 6.1
Novel · Modernist literatureWe are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.Marcel ProustIn Search of Lost Time · 1922★ 5.5
Novel · Modernist literatureOnce I had recognized the taste of the crumb of madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime flowers which my aunt used to give me... Immediately the old gray house upon the street, where her room was, rose up like the scenery of a theater.Marcel ProustIn Search of Lost Time · 1913★ 5.3
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