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"... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other..."
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"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
"The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading."
"Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in."
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"Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness."
"Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages."
"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress."
"Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself."
"There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind."
"And the others too were beginning to remark in Swann that abnormal, excessive, shameful and deserved senescence of bachelors, of all those for whom it seems that the great day which knows no morrow must be longer than for other men, since for them it is a void of promise, and from its dawn the moments steadily accumulate without any subsequent partition among offspring."
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