Marcel Proust Quotes

All I Could Remember Was Her Smile. Unable To Picture The Loved Face, However Strenuously I Tried To Make Myself Remember It, I Was For Ever Irritated To Find That My Memory Had Retained Exact Replicas Of The Striking And Futile Faces Of The Roundabout Man And The Barley-sugar Woman, Just As The Bereaved, Who Each Night Search Their Dreams In Vain For The Lost Beloved, Will Find Their Sleep Is Peopled By All Manner Of Exasperating And Unbearable Intruders, Whom They Have Always Found, Even In The Waking World, More Than Dislikable. Faced With The Impossibility Of Seeing Clearly The Object Of Their Grief, They Come Close To Accusing Themselves Of Not Grieving, Just As I Was Tempted To Believe That My Inability To Remember The Features Of Gilberte's Face Meant That I Had Forgotten Her And Had Stopped Loving Her.

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