"They held that one ought to set before children, and that children showed their own innate good taste in admiring, on…"

"Whenever she saw in others an advantage, however trivial, which she herself lacked, she would persuade herself that i…"

"M. Legrandin … was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved br…"

"The reality that I had known no longer existed. It sufficed that Mme. Swann did not appear, in the same attire and at…"

"Huysmans ... was one day to astonish the world by his resounding cry: À rebours! denouncing with a fine fanaticism th…"

"The apple trees planted in rows on the favorable hillsides heralded a splendid crop that summer; I dreamed of the ric…"

"The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free, that is the task."

"I soon realized that what are supposedly the worst things (lying, to mention only one) are hard to do only when you h…"

"There comes a point in love, a unique moment which later on the soul seeks in vain to surpass"

"Nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness."