the first six volumes were translated by C. In Search of Lost Time / Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927) Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for everyone, and need only be turned up like a page in an account-book or the record of a will our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people. 17, as quoted in Orledge Gabriel Fauré (1979), p.

a pederast might hum when raping a choirboy.Jean Autret and William Burford (Yale University Press, 1987, ISBN 3-4, p.

Notes to Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin, translated by Proust (1906) from Marcel Proust: On Reading Ruskin, trans.Between a worldly philosopher and a philosopher intimidated by a minister of state, the second is still the more innocent. Actually, there are very few philosophers and artists who are absolutely detached from ambition and respect for power, from 'people of position.' And among those who are more delicate or more sated, snobism replaces ambition and respect for power in the same way superstition arises on the ruins of religious beliefs. Very simply, diverse personalities are to be found in the breast of each of us, and often the life of more than one superior man is nothing but the coexistence of a philosopher and a snob. In other words, having become more intelligent creates some rights to be less. This is one of those sophisms that the vanity of intelligent people picks up in the arsenal of their intelligence to justify their basest inclinations. A man is not more entitled to be 'received in good society,' or at least to wish to be, because he is more intelligent and cultivated.Wolfe (Yale University Press, 1987, ISBN 3-4, p. Preface (1910) to The Bible of Amiens by John Ruskin, translated by Proust (1904) from Marcel Proust: On Reading Ruskin, trans.I do not venerate hawthorn, I go to see and smell it. I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, though I know of nothing more beautiful than the hawthorn, for I wish to remain sincere and because I know that the beauty of a painting does not depend on the things represented in it.A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure.1.1.3 Vol III: The Guermantes Way (1920).1.1.2 Vol II: Within a Budding Grove (1919).1.1 In Search of Lost Time / Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927).

La Prisonnière by Marcel Proust