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Proust, as well as being a great storyteller, is also a sage. There are more wise maxims in Proust's pages than in La Rochefoucauld, and as many wise pensées as in Pascal. It is remarkable that even in these early stories he had developed this faculty. (Foreword, A. N. Wilson)
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In all this there were small things that bore the precise memory of episodes of sensuality or affection fabricated from the most insignificant circumstances in his life, and it was like a vast fresco, depicting

Proust, as well as being a great storyteller, is also a sage. There are more wise maxims in Proust's pages than in La Rochefoucauld, and as many wise pensées as in Pascal. It is remarkable that even in these early stories he had developed this faculty. (Foreword, A. N. Wilson)
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In all this there were small things that bore the precise memory of episodes of sensuality or affection fabricated from the most insignificant circumstances in his life, and it was like a vast fresco, depicting his life without narrating it, selecting only its most colourful and passionate moments, in a way at once very vague and very precise, with great and poignant power. (Nostalgia �� Daydreams Under Changing Skies, 7)

with melancholy pleasure and without any pain, the vast roar of bygone days.