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Jacob (jacobvictorfisher) | 112 comments Each quote is found at the end of a paragraph. These quotes are from the Penguin edition (this volume is translated by John Sturrock). I don’t have the MKE translation of this volume so when I had the option I tried to choose quotes that included a proper noun. After each quote I cite the approximate page percentage of the line. The percentage is of the text ISoLT only, excluding introductions and prefaces, end notes and summaries.

July 11
"Thus it was that Mme de Marsantes, when someone from a different world entered her circle, extolled before him those discreet people 'whom one finds when one goes in search of them who keep themselves to themselves the rest of the time', just as in a roundabout way, you advise a servant who smells that bathing does wonders for the health" (~12.05%).

July 18
"These colorful studies in linguistic geography and its attendant camaraderie were pursued each week in the kitchen, without my deriving any pleasure from them" (~24.1%).

July 25
"He ended by explaining that Albertine was not in Epreville, that she would be back only at nine o'clock and that if sometimes, which meant by any change, she were to return sooner, she would be given the message, and she would at all events be with me before one a.m." (~38.55).

August 1
"The passengers who would be catching it stood aside to give it room, but unhurriedly, knowing that they had to deal with a debonair, almost human stroller which, guided, like the bicycle of a learner, by the indulgent signals of the station-master, and under the powerful tutelage of the engine-driver, was in no danger of running anyone down and would have stopped wherever you wanted" (~47.99%).

August 8
"The procedure is similar - thought the reverse of theirs - to that of those liars who, by editing their activities when recounting them to a mistress or simply to a friend, imagine that neither one nor the other will at once see that the sentence spoken (as in the case of Cahn, Kohn, Kuhn) is an interpolation, is of another species from those making up the conversation, that it has a false bottom" (~59.64%).

August 15
"...it lent this red-faced Norman something at once bloodless and ecstatic, as though the Marquis had just been operated on, or were imploring Heaven, beneath his monocle, for a martyr's crown" (End of Part II, Chapter 2 ; ~71.49%).

August 22
"I answered unwisely that he was mistaken, that the gentleman was no relation at all to the Guermantes but was called Fournier-Sarlovèze. The distinguished man turned his back on me and has never acknowledged me since" (~84.34).

August 29
"The benefit that I derived from it, at least, was no longer to see things except from the practical point of view. Marriage with Albertine struck me as foolish"(End of Sodom and Gomorrah).


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