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The Modern Library In Search of Lost Time, Complete and Unabridged 6-Book Bundle: Remembrance of Things Past, Volumes I-VI (Modern Library Classics)
Marcel Proust, Terence Kilmartin, C.K. Scott Moncrieff,
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Marcel Proust, who in The Captive wrote a 447-word sentence about a sofa, said that he wanted to ‘weave these long silks as I spin them’ and to ‘encircle the truth with a single – even if long and sinuous – stroke’.
Joe Moran • First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life.
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
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