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Selected passages from books connected with this theme.
In Search of Lost Time
Proust Marcel
Volume I Swann's Way
(first pages)
Overture
For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say “I’m going to sleep.” An …
XII. On Old Age
Seneca
1. Wherever I turn, I see evidences of my advancing years. I visited lately my coun- try-place, and protested against the money which was spent on the tumble-down building. My bailiff maintained that the flaws were not d …
In Search of Lost Time
Proust Marcel
From the final volume,
*Time Regained*,
[...]
"So many times in my life reality had disappointed me, because at the very moment I perceived it, my imagination—the only instrument through which I could delight in bea …