Certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we find it easier to refer to their fictitious testimony than to that of a reality which we have almost entirely forgotten.


In Search of Lost Time: Within a budding grove (ed. Vintage Classics, 1996)


Certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we find it easier to refer to...

Certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we find it easier to refer to...

Certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we find it easier to refer to...

Certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we find it easier to refer to...