Narrator, Page 49
"What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the dark region through which it must go seeking and where all its equipment will avail it nothing."

Narrator, Page 62
"Everyone was so well known in Combray, animals as well as people, that if my aunt had happened to see a dog go by which she "didn't know from Adam" she never stopped thinking about it, devoting all her inductive talents and her leisure hours to this incomprehensible phenomenon."

M. Legrandin, to Narrator, Page 73
"'You have a soul in you of rare quality, an artist's nature; never let it starve for lack of what it needs.'"

Narrator, Page 93
"Had my parents allowed me, when I read a book, to pay a visit to the region it described, I should have felt that I was...