In Search of Lost Time - Overture
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In Search of Lost Time - Overture
When I disengaged myself as above mentioned from private business, I flattered myself that, by the sufficient though moderate fortune I had acquired, I had secured leisure during the rest of my life for philosophical studies and amusements.
Benjamin Franklin • Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics)
My heart was ready to burst with indignation and grief. Pleyel was not the only object of my keen but unjust upbraiding. Deeply did I execrate my own folly. Thus fallen into ruins was the gay fabric which I had reared! Thus had my golden vision melted into air!
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it; perhaps because I had so often seen such things in the interval, without tasting them, on the trays in pastry-cooks’ windows, that their image had dissociated itself from those Combray days to take its place among others more recent; perhaps because of those memor
... See moreMarcel Proust • In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]
Au sein de cette contemplation, j’avais oublié le temps : y avait-il une heure que j’étais ainsi contre le bastingage, ou y avait-il seulement quelques minutes ? Au gré de l’oscillation, le gigantesque berceau du navire me balançait et m’emportait au-delà du temps.