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“Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years.”

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way

Work

In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way

The third volume of this epic novel explores the intricate social and psychological landscape of early 20th-century Paris through the eyes of the protagonist, who navigates the world of the Guermantes family. more

Author

Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust was a French novelist renowned for his magnum opus, 'In Search of Lost Time'. This novel is considered a classic of 20th-century literature, known for its intricate psychological portrayals and profound exploration of memory. more

“And indeed when we are no longer in love with women whom we meet after many years, is there not the abyss of death between them and ourselves, just as much as if they were no longer of this world, since the fact that we are no longer in love makes the people that they were or the person that we were then as good as dead?”

People Ifs World Years Persons Facts This World Abyss

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)

“During this period (of technological confinement / [and language]) the human mind has been placed in its narrowest confines it has experienced since consciousness emerged from its Paleolithic phase. Even the most primitive tribes have a larger vision of the universe, of our place and functioning within it, a vision that extends to celestial regions of space and to interior depths of the human in a manner far exceeding the parameters of our world of technological confinement.”