Remembrance Of Things Past The Sweet Cheat Gone

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781724975034
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Remembrance of Things Past written by Marcel Proust and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remembrance of Things Past: The Sweet Cheat Gone By Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past. The Sweet Cheat Gone. Marcel Proust. Translated from the French by C. K. Scott Moncrieff. The bonds that unite another person to ourself exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we would fain be cheated and with which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we cheat other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying. We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us past it, and then if we turn round to gaze at the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it become. A woman is of greater service to our life if she is in it, instead of being an element of happiness, an instrument of sorrow, and there is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer. 1. Grief and Oblivion. 2. Mademoiselle De Forcheville. 3. Venice. 4. A Fresh Light Upon Robert De Saint-Loup We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.