À la recherche du temps perdu

mind-and-cognition

• the chain of all inexact impressions… constitutes our thought, our life, reality — and literature of notations misses it entirely

  LRDTP-RC-031

• forgetting the Guermantes matinée, rediscovering what I had felt placing my feet thus — Venice, which memory's snapshots had never conveyed

  LRDTP-RC-003

• the sensation of the uneven paving-stones restored those days as they had once been felt — the true difference between genuine and fabricated impression

  LRDTP-RC-005

self-and-identity

• I must restore meaning to the least signs around me — Guermantes, Albertine, Gilberte — which habit had drained of significance for me

  LRDTP-RC-033

mortality

• successive replacement of each cell had produced so complete a metamorphosis I could have dined opposite them without suspecting I had known them before

  LRDTP-RC-063

• I heard all around me laugh — I had placed myself at my mother's viewpoint, for whom I was always a child, yet I had become an old man

  LRDTP-RC-064