“It is that if we go on like this I may not be able to resist the temptation to kiss you.” “That would be a fine pity.” ... “If you really don't mind my kissing ...

You know Tiche,” cried Mme. Verdurin. “But do you know that we used to be the dearest friends? Thank heaven, I never see him now. No, but ask Cottard ...

What a strange idea that was to tell her about Albertine. She told me that you had said to her that her death had been such a grief to you. I shall never go ...

For some moments, knowing that he would make me happier than Albertine, I remained closeted with the little person inside me, hymning the rising sun, of whom I ...

CHAPTER TWO THE VERDURINS QUARREL WITH M. DE CHARLUS After dinner, I told Albertine that, since I was out of bed, I might as well take the opportunity to go ...

He congratulated me upon going straight home like this (unaware that a girl was waiting for me in the house), and upon ending so early, and so wisely, an ...

Brilliantly translated by Lydia Davis, here are Proust's tormented, touching, and often very funny letters to his noisy neighbor. Marcel Proust's genius for ...

It was, therefore, necessary for me to discover the meaning of the slightest signs that surrounded me (Guermantes, Albertine, Gilberte, Saint-Loup, Balbec, et ...