Time

1. Wherever I turn, I see evidences of my advancing years. I visited lately my coun- try-place, and protested against the money which was spent on the tumble-down building. My bailiff maintained that the flaws were not d …

Volume I Swann's Way (first pages) Overture For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say “I’m going to sleep.” An …

From the final volume, *Time Regained*, [...] "So many times in my life reality had disappointed me, because at the very moment I perceived it, my imagination—the only instrument through which I could delight in bea …