Index, L-Z
L
La Perouse II,175
laborious, habit of being IV,158
Lambresac, smile, Duchess de, false smile, VII,112
language unknown is a fortress sealed III,221
language, emotion deflects, different phrase issued from an unknown lake, XI,165
language, vulgar and pretentious use of, XII,73
laughter, dumb show of suffocation and hilarity II,62
laughter, like 2 masks in a theatre II,62
law of inverse proportions, death of unknown millions does not concern us, XII,99
law of inverse proportions, multiplies anything that concerns our own welfare.., XII,99
lawyer, eminent, look down on profession, men of intelligence - artists VII,287-8
Legrandin, I,161-181
letter, cold opening and frigid conclusion of VI, 189
library of a country house, limitations and value of, VI,331
library, Narrator in, at the Princesse de G before entering the party, XII,224ff
lies, we lie all our life long, esp, perhaps only, to those who love us, XI,266
life and art, IX,209
life in my being, and that of the universe, puny by comparison IV,325
life, desire a better one, but know it only by desire, XI,259
life, eternity and death, XI,132-3
life, love of, XI,316
life, my past, a vocation, a plant in embryo, a seed XII,267
life, my, a succession of periods, in which nothing of the previous period survived,XI,246
life, my, may as well be cut short by death now, analogy to French history courses,XI,246
life, our true, reality as we have felt it, remains ordinarily forever unknown to us, XI,241
life, perpetually weaving fresh threads, XII,448
life, real, is literature, life thus defined is immanent in ordinary men, XII,262
life, starting points of, (phrase, steeples, line of trees), X,74
life: a perpetual renewal of our cells, XI,245
lift boy, silent in presence of, VII,313
light of day, Luxor obeslisk made of pink nougat, VII,47
light, grew velvety, lost its tone IV,139
light, roseatte, scattered by opening door, VII,317-8
lips, kissing VI,75,76
literature, the only life really lived, XII,262
Lohengrin, the Prelude to, Overture to Tannhauser III,388
Lost Time, drawing room transformations, a phenomenon of the memory, XII,396
love affairs, early, slight and timid essays, X,63
love merges in the general rule of oblivion, XI,315
love not the girl (A) but only the dawn reflected on her face, XI,315
love, a mistake to be in without an ample fortune III,281
love, a share in some unknown existence, I,134
love, a striking example of how little reality means to us, XI,207
love, brings to the surface the most intimate parts of our being IV,184
love, ceased to, curiosity dies before person is herself dead, XI,131
love, choosing the object of not an intellectual exercise, XI,357-8
love, creates a third, a supplementary person in the object of our love, III,55-56
love, exquisite mirage which love projects, XI,357-8
love, is born, survives, only if some part remains for it to conquer, IX,137-8
love, is the insistence upon a whole, IX,137-8
love, jealousy and anguish, XI,111-2
love, no peace of mind in III,219
love, not eternal, because memories not always genuine.. XI,245
love, not in – no insight for those who are in love VII,132
love, people whom we, are only a vast and vague place for our affections, XI,109
love, possession of what we love, a greater joy than love itself, IX,59
love, those we no longer love, detached ourselves from, indifference, XI,90-1
love, those whose intellectual and moral physiognomy is least defined in our eyes, XI,109
love, to know the last details of a woman, like a scientific investigation II,78
love, we love only what we do not wholly possess, IX,137-8
love, we, only what we do not possess X,245
love, what we feel for a person whose actions arouse jealousy, IX,72-3
love, woman we, tend to undervalue their intelligence, kindness, XI,111-2
loved one, affection for after death, like a cutting grafted on to the heart, XI,162
loved one, contradiction between living memory and consciousness of her death, XI,162
loved one, death of, XI,148-9
lover, past, like a dead person no longer mourned VII, 154-7
lunches, deprives us of solitude without affording us company, IX,11-12
Luxembourg, Mme de , family tree of VI,162
Luxor obelisk, ‘made of pink nougat’ VII,47
La Perouse II,175
laborious, habit of being IV,158
Lambresac, smile, Duchess de, false smile, VII,112
language unknown is a fortress sealed III,221
language, emotion deflects, different phrase issued from an unknown lake, XI,165
language, vulgar and pretentious use of, XII,73
laughter, dumb show of suffocation and hilarity II,62
laughter, like 2 masks in a theatre II,62
law of inverse proportions, death of unknown millions does not concern us, XII,99
law of inverse proportions, multiplies anything that concerns our own welfare.., XII,99
lawyer, eminent, look down on profession, men of intelligence - artists VII,287-8
Legrandin, I,161-181
letter, cold opening and frigid conclusion of VI, 189
library of a country house, limitations and value of, VI,331
library, Narrator in, at the Princesse de G before entering the party, XII,224ff
lies, we lie all our life long, esp, perhaps only, to those who love us, XI,266
life and art, IX,209
life in my being, and that of the universe, puny by comparison IV,325
life, desire a better one, but know it only by desire, XI,259
life, eternity and death, XI,132-3
life, love of, XI,316
life, my past, a vocation, a plant in embryo, a seed XII,267
life, my, a succession of periods, in which nothing of the previous period survived,XI,246
life, my, may as well be cut short by death now, analogy to French history courses,XI,246
life, our true, reality as we have felt it, remains ordinarily forever unknown to us, XI,241
life, perpetually weaving fresh threads, XII,448
life, real, is literature, life thus defined is immanent in ordinary men, XII,262
life, starting points of, (phrase, steeples, line of trees), X,74
life: a perpetual renewal of our cells, XI,245
lift boy, silent in presence of, VII,313
light of day, Luxor obeslisk made of pink nougat, VII,47
light, grew velvety, lost its tone IV,139
light, roseatte, scattered by opening door, VII,317-8
lips, kissing VI,75,76
literature, the only life really lived, XII,262
Lohengrin, the Prelude to, Overture to Tannhauser III,388
Lost Time, drawing room transformations, a phenomenon of the memory, XII,396
love affairs, early, slight and timid essays, X,63
love merges in the general rule of oblivion, XI,315
love not the girl (A) but only the dawn reflected on her face, XI,315
love, a mistake to be in without an ample fortune III,281
love, a share in some unknown existence, I,134
love, a striking example of how little reality means to us, XI,207
love, brings to the surface the most intimate parts of our being IV,184
love, ceased to, curiosity dies before person is herself dead, XI,131
love, choosing the object of not an intellectual exercise, XI,357-8
love, creates a third, a supplementary person in the object of our love, III,55-56
love, exquisite mirage which love projects, XI,357-8
love, is born, survives, only if some part remains for it to conquer, IX,137-8
love, is the insistence upon a whole, IX,137-8
love, jealousy and anguish, XI,111-2
love, no peace of mind in III,219
love, not eternal, because memories not always genuine.. XI,245
love, not in – no insight for those who are in love VII,132
love, people whom we, are only a vast and vague place for our affections, XI,109
love, possession of what we love, a greater joy than love itself, IX,59
love, those we no longer love, detached ourselves from, indifference, XI,90-1
love, those whose intellectual and moral physiognomy is least defined in our eyes, XI,109
love, to know the last details of a woman, like a scientific investigation II,78
love, we love only what we do not wholly possess, IX,137-8
love, we, only what we do not possess X,245
love, what we feel for a person whose actions arouse jealousy, IX,72-3
love, woman we, tend to undervalue their intelligence, kindness, XI,111-2
loved one, affection for after death, like a cutting grafted on to the heart, XI,162
loved one, contradiction between living memory and consciousness of her death, XI,162
loved one, death of, XI,148-9
lover, past, like a dead person no longer mourned VII, 154-7
lunches, deprives us of solitude without affording us company, IX,11-12
Luxembourg, Mme de , family tree of VI,162
Luxor obelisk, ‘made of pink nougat’ VII,47
M
madeleine, cf phrase of Vinteuil, X,233
madeleine, hawthorns, influenced N’s perspective on life VI,333
madeleine, reasons for joy at taste of, analysed, XII,230
madeleine, steeple, a magical scrawl, complex and elaborately flourished, XII,240
madeleine, steeple, not gone in search of, they were given to me, XII,240
madeleine, the I, 57-8
man, cannot emerge from himself, knows his fellows only in himself, XI,41
man, exists alone, XI,41
man, freed from the order of time, XII,230
man, one of those amphibious creatures plunged both in the past and present, XI,162
man, surrounded by the walls of time through which he has lived, floats within.., XI,272
man, tall, dark – reminded one of an ebony paper knife, VIII,70
manics, drug addicts, desire to be cured but no be deprived of the manias…, XI,259
manics, see comments on neurotics at V,409
Manners persist through the generations, VII,114
Mantagna’s paintings and the decorative warrior, II,148
marriage, and adultery, X,76
marriage, relations not consecrated by, establish bonds of kinship.. X,76
Marsantes, Mme de, inbreeding of incessantly crossed strains, XI,358
Martinville, twin steeples of I,247-250
medical profession – mistakes made by innumerable VII,57-9
medical profession, Dr C would not forego his Wednesday off, VIII,36
medical profession, see also doctors, medicine
medicine, a mass of errors from which have emerged scientific truths V,409
medicine, creates its own illnesses, IX,243
medicine, not an exact science VII,57-9
medicine, see also doctors, medical profession
medicine, the believe in the height of folly, V,409
meeting a person, before and after, a different consciousness III,341
meeting, first, betrothal by proxy IV,243
meeting, first, picture we retain of, substituted for the person, IV,243
melancholy and the piano, VII,264
memories of Combray, trying to revive I,57-8
memories, Bergson - possess all them, but not the faculty of recalling them, VIII,179
memories, even if we live in a hermetically sealed compartment , IX,23
memories, furniture, transported - fragments of a vanished world, X,107-8
memories, hidden in an oblivion III,308
memories, humours, ideas know the secret paths by which to return to us, XI,99
memories, humours, ideas set out to voyage until they are lost to sight, XI,99
memories, posy in pastel the sole fragment of a life that had vanished, X,107-8
memories, renewal of, retarded by fixation of a moment that is bound to change, XI,245
memories, translucent alabaster of, X,106-7
memory extracting different statues from abandoned quarry of my personality, XII,250
memory of a dream and memory of a reality, no great difference between, XI,318
memory of childhood, exquisite, a hawthorn bush IV,309
memory of loved one when absent during life cf to memory after death, XI,148-9
memory remodelled everyday by habit, IX,81-2
memory without fault, not a powerful incentive to study of memory, VII,72
memory, a great part of what we say a recantation from memory, IX,139
memory, a, surfaces when the mind is at rest IV,169
memory, A. subdivided according to a series of fractions of time; mind reunites, XI,135
memory, anachronism, prevents calendar of facts corresponding to feelings VII,218-9
memory, better part exists outside ourself, in a blatter of rain III,308
memory, calling up only detached moments of the loved one’s life, XI,132-3
memory, card table raised to the dignity of a person - it had a memory, X,107-8
memory, few things people in society remember, IX,41-2
memory, image brings with it sensation multiple and heterogeneous, XII,253
memory, images selected by are arbitrary; real place need not conform VII,212
memory, impression dissolved in the fluid and invisible expanse of, XI,103
memory, incessant upheavals rise to the surface ancient deposits, XI,175-6
memory, interpolation in, like a thick fog at sea obliterates all landmarks, XI,246
memory, living reality, instinctive and complete act of recollection, VII,218-9
memory, mind confines only a few things to, IX,41-2
memory, mind has landscapes only able to be viewed for a certain space of time, XII,455
memory, moments of the past retain the motion which drew them to the future, XI,100-1
memory, pictures one stores in, mistake to seek reality in, II,288
memory, poetical vain image of memory and dreams, VIII,382-3
memory, reinforces a spontaneous impulse to produce experience, XI,25
memory, return journeys, cruelty of, XI,195-6
memory, sensations coming not from, but from an impression, X,233-4
memory, soared slowly through the silent heights of, XI,212
memory, the general rules of, and habit III,308
memory, thin slice held between contiguous impressions that composed life, II,288
memory, time, loss of perspective, XI,246
memory, troubles of, closely linked to heart’s intermissions VII, 218-9
memory, unconscious, of first evenings of winter, IX,69-70
memory, unconscious, stimulated by the scent of fire, a fragment of the past IX,25-6
memory, volume glistens with the snow on the day I first read it, XII,251
mental illness, X,2
mental illness, and social functions to which doctors invite their patients, X,51
Meseglise walk, fragments I,199
Meseglise walk, the second, I,209-218
Meseglise walk, the third I,218-227
Meseglise way and Guermantes way, have opened new paths before our feet I,252
Meseglise way and Guermantes way, impressions surrounding, I,255
Meseglise way and Guermantes way, significance of, I,255
Meseglise way, first walk I,184-195
Meseglise way, shorter of the 2 walks, I,205
militarism, in struggle against against D’ism, and against militaristic Germany, XII,107
military glory, halo of, XI,205
mind, act of, which separates things from their environment III,310
mind, bonds that unite another person to ourself exist only in our mind, XI,46-7
mind, only in our mind that we possess things, XI,186
minds, lofty, simple, without knowledge III,318
Minister, became after starting as a journalist - ‘Life has these tragedies’, VIII,40
mistakes of others, succumb to him themselves (de Charlus), X,55
mists, night, VIII,382-3
Monet, waterlilies series, VII,294
moon prematurely full like the face of a clock that has stopped.. IX,233
moon, assumes her full power when daylight goes IV,314
moon, like a section of orange delicately peeled… VII,47
moon, narrow slip of, invisible knife peeling in the sky, VIII,227
moon, white, actress who does not have to come on for a while I,200
moonlight, long ribbon of, I,133
morality, separating from a whole order of actions (eg judges, statesmen), XI,186
Morel, son of my uncle’s valet, VIII,9
morning light and forest groves, II,283
motor car destroys our conception of position in space, VIII,208
motor car enters town by the wings; train promises accessibility of the town, VIII,208
motor car, compared to the train, VIII,208
mouldy smell, a, why it should evoke such rapture, III,93
music, helps me to descend into myself, there to make a fresh discovery, IX,210
music, polite silence during, but no one listening, X,85
music, superiority over the spoken and written word, X,71
mysterious world to which one may never return, II,179
madeleine, cf phrase of Vinteuil, X,233
madeleine, hawthorns, influenced N’s perspective on life VI,333
madeleine, reasons for joy at taste of, analysed, XII,230
madeleine, steeple, a magical scrawl, complex and elaborately flourished, XII,240
madeleine, steeple, not gone in search of, they were given to me, XII,240
madeleine, the I, 57-8
man, cannot emerge from himself, knows his fellows only in himself, XI,41
man, exists alone, XI,41
man, freed from the order of time, XII,230
man, one of those amphibious creatures plunged both in the past and present, XI,162
man, surrounded by the walls of time through which he has lived, floats within.., XI,272
man, tall, dark – reminded one of an ebony paper knife, VIII,70
manics, drug addicts, desire to be cured but no be deprived of the manias…, XI,259
manics, see comments on neurotics at V,409
Manners persist through the generations, VII,114
Mantagna’s paintings and the decorative warrior, II,148
marriage, and adultery, X,76
marriage, relations not consecrated by, establish bonds of kinship.. X,76
Marsantes, Mme de, inbreeding of incessantly crossed strains, XI,358
Martinville, twin steeples of I,247-250
medical profession – mistakes made by innumerable VII,57-9
medical profession, Dr C would not forego his Wednesday off, VIII,36
medical profession, see also doctors, medicine
medicine, a mass of errors from which have emerged scientific truths V,409
medicine, creates its own illnesses, IX,243
medicine, not an exact science VII,57-9
medicine, see also doctors, medical profession
medicine, the believe in the height of folly, V,409
meeting a person, before and after, a different consciousness III,341
meeting, first, betrothal by proxy IV,243
meeting, first, picture we retain of, substituted for the person, IV,243
melancholy and the piano, VII,264
memories of Combray, trying to revive I,57-8
memories, Bergson - possess all them, but not the faculty of recalling them, VIII,179
memories, even if we live in a hermetically sealed compartment , IX,23
memories, furniture, transported - fragments of a vanished world, X,107-8
memories, hidden in an oblivion III,308
memories, humours, ideas know the secret paths by which to return to us, XI,99
memories, humours, ideas set out to voyage until they are lost to sight, XI,99
memories, posy in pastel the sole fragment of a life that had vanished, X,107-8
memories, renewal of, retarded by fixation of a moment that is bound to change, XI,245
memories, translucent alabaster of, X,106-7
memory extracting different statues from abandoned quarry of my personality, XII,250
memory of a dream and memory of a reality, no great difference between, XI,318
memory of childhood, exquisite, a hawthorn bush IV,309
memory of loved one when absent during life cf to memory after death, XI,148-9
memory remodelled everyday by habit, IX,81-2
memory without fault, not a powerful incentive to study of memory, VII,72
memory, a great part of what we say a recantation from memory, IX,139
memory, a, surfaces when the mind is at rest IV,169
memory, A. subdivided according to a series of fractions of time; mind reunites, XI,135
memory, anachronism, prevents calendar of facts corresponding to feelings VII,218-9
memory, better part exists outside ourself, in a blatter of rain III,308
memory, calling up only detached moments of the loved one’s life, XI,132-3
memory, card table raised to the dignity of a person - it had a memory, X,107-8
memory, few things people in society remember, IX,41-2
memory, image brings with it sensation multiple and heterogeneous, XII,253
memory, images selected by are arbitrary; real place need not conform VII,212
memory, impression dissolved in the fluid and invisible expanse of, XI,103
memory, incessant upheavals rise to the surface ancient deposits, XI,175-6
memory, interpolation in, like a thick fog at sea obliterates all landmarks, XI,246
memory, living reality, instinctive and complete act of recollection, VII,218-9
memory, mind confines only a few things to, IX,41-2
memory, mind has landscapes only able to be viewed for a certain space of time, XII,455
memory, moments of the past retain the motion which drew them to the future, XI,100-1
memory, pictures one stores in, mistake to seek reality in, II,288
memory, poetical vain image of memory and dreams, VIII,382-3
memory, reinforces a spontaneous impulse to produce experience, XI,25
memory, return journeys, cruelty of, XI,195-6
memory, sensations coming not from, but from an impression, X,233-4
memory, soared slowly through the silent heights of, XI,212
memory, the general rules of, and habit III,308
memory, thin slice held between contiguous impressions that composed life, II,288
memory, time, loss of perspective, XI,246
memory, troubles of, closely linked to heart’s intermissions VII, 218-9
memory, unconscious, of first evenings of winter, IX,69-70
memory, unconscious, stimulated by the scent of fire, a fragment of the past IX,25-6
memory, volume glistens with the snow on the day I first read it, XII,251
mental illness, X,2
mental illness, and social functions to which doctors invite their patients, X,51
Meseglise walk, fragments I,199
Meseglise walk, the second, I,209-218
Meseglise walk, the third I,218-227
Meseglise way and Guermantes way, have opened new paths before our feet I,252
Meseglise way and Guermantes way, impressions surrounding, I,255
Meseglise way and Guermantes way, significance of, I,255
Meseglise way, first walk I,184-195
Meseglise way, shorter of the 2 walks, I,205
militarism, in struggle against against D’ism, and against militaristic Germany, XII,107
military glory, halo of, XI,205
mind, act of, which separates things from their environment III,310
mind, bonds that unite another person to ourself exist only in our mind, XI,46-7
mind, only in our mind that we possess things, XI,186
minds, lofty, simple, without knowledge III,318
Minister, became after starting as a journalist - ‘Life has these tragedies’, VIII,40
mistakes of others, succumb to him themselves (de Charlus), X,55
mists, night, VIII,382-3
Monet, waterlilies series, VII,294
moon prematurely full like the face of a clock that has stopped.. IX,233
moon, assumes her full power when daylight goes IV,314
moon, like a section of orange delicately peeled… VII,47
moon, narrow slip of, invisible knife peeling in the sky, VIII,227
moon, white, actress who does not have to come on for a while I,200
moonlight, long ribbon of, I,133
morality, separating from a whole order of actions (eg judges, statesmen), XI,186
Morel, son of my uncle’s valet, VIII,9
morning light and forest groves, II,283
motor car destroys our conception of position in space, VIII,208
motor car enters town by the wings; train promises accessibility of the town, VIII,208
motor car, compared to the train, VIII,208
mouldy smell, a, why it should evoke such rapture, III,93
music, helps me to descend into myself, there to make a fresh discovery, IX,210
music, polite silence during, but no one listening, X,85
music, superiority over the spoken and written word, X,71
mysterious world to which one may never return, II,179
N
nations and individuals composed of cells, XII,97
nations, huge organised accumulations of individuals, XII,97
nations, repeat on a larger scale, the lives of their constituent cells, XII,97
nature, first attempts by to create the artist, XII,257
neurasthenics, see manics
neurotics (?manics), the salt of the earth V,409
newspaper, the spiritual bread of life, XI,209-10
newspapers of 30 years ago, these stories now slumbered in, XII,335
newspapers, we read them as we love, blindfold, XII,71
nobleman, superiority to middle classes, same as those before the Rev Tribunal X.152
noblemen, great, learn from as much as one does peasants VI,331
Norpois, M de, Minister, articles resembled optimistic bulletins.. death of patient, XI,305
nostalgia and antiquity I,53
novelists, actors, hailed as men of genius but mediocre, reasons why, X,95
novels, certain, are like great but temporary bereavements: abolish our habits, XI,196
nations and individuals composed of cells, XII,97
nations, huge organised accumulations of individuals, XII,97
nations, repeat on a larger scale, the lives of their constituent cells, XII,97
nature, first attempts by to create the artist, XII,257
neurasthenics, see manics
neurotics (?manics), the salt of the earth V,409
newspaper, the spiritual bread of life, XI,209-10
newspapers of 30 years ago, these stories now slumbered in, XII,335
newspapers, we read them as we love, blindfold, XII,71
nobleman, superiority to middle classes, same as those before the Rev Tribunal X.152
noblemen, great, learn from as much as one does peasants VI,331
Norpois, M de, Minister, articles resembled optimistic bulletins.. death of patient, XI,305
nostalgia and antiquity I,53
novelists, actors, hailed as men of genius but mediocre, reasons why, X,95
novels, certain, are like great but temporary bereavements: abolish our habits, XI,196
O
obituary columns, diversity in forms of death reflected in, VIII,18
obituary, unreality of reading, IX,270
oblivion, devours love and death acts the same way as absence, XI,313
oblivion, indifference, forgetting former and dead family members and lovers, XI,90-1
old age like death: men with more imagination confront both with indifference, XII,308
old age, appearance, failed to see our own, but see in others like a mirror, XII,308
old age, eliminating the squares and hexagons age had added to her cheeks, XII,322
old age, great and general renunciation, I,196
old age, holding out against, women, XII,332
old age, imminence of death, personified in the Duc de Guermantes, XII,429
old age, metamorphosis appropriate to an insect, XII,317
old age, one foot in the grave, bent like a parabola, XII,321
old age, see also ‘age’
old age, stages of: action, desire, relinquishing one then the other, XI,301
old age, the most miserable of human conditions, XII,431
old age, transformations wrought by, XII,433
old age, what it is, a purely abstract conception to the reality, XII,313
old age: hair, red, taken out of service like a table-cloth, replaced by one in white,XII,317
old age: Time, a mask in the collection of, adding layer to layer slowly, XII,315
old man like myself: in the hope of being contradicted, XII,308
opinions, people of contrary, supposed in them a prejudice – Swann VI,374-5
optimism - optimistic bulletins at once followed by the death of the patient, XI,305
optimism the philosophy of the past, XI,332
order of time, minute freed from, has created man freed from the order of time, XII,230
organs, atrophy or grow stronger, as need for them increases or decreases, VII,313
outside time – extra-temporal experiences, XI,229
obituary columns, diversity in forms of death reflected in, VIII,18
obituary, unreality of reading, IX,270
oblivion, devours love and death acts the same way as absence, XI,313
oblivion, indifference, forgetting former and dead family members and lovers, XI,90-1
old age like death: men with more imagination confront both with indifference, XII,308
old age, appearance, failed to see our own, but see in others like a mirror, XII,308
old age, eliminating the squares and hexagons age had added to her cheeks, XII,322
old age, great and general renunciation, I,196
old age, holding out against, women, XII,332
old age, imminence of death, personified in the Duc de Guermantes, XII,429
old age, metamorphosis appropriate to an insect, XII,317
old age, one foot in the grave, bent like a parabola, XII,321
old age, see also ‘age’
old age, stages of: action, desire, relinquishing one then the other, XI,301
old age, the most miserable of human conditions, XII,431
old age, transformations wrought by, XII,433
old age, what it is, a purely abstract conception to the reality, XII,313
old age: hair, red, taken out of service like a table-cloth, replaced by one in white,XII,317
old age: Time, a mask in the collection of, adding layer to layer slowly, XII,315
old man like myself: in the hope of being contradicted, XII,308
opinions, people of contrary, supposed in them a prejudice – Swann VI,374-5
optimism - optimistic bulletins at once followed by the death of the patient, XI,305
optimism the philosophy of the past, XI,332
order of time, minute freed from, has created man freed from the order of time, XII,230
organs, atrophy or grow stronger, as need for them increases or decreases, VII,313
outside time – extra-temporal experiences, XI,229
P
pacificism, multiplies wars and indulges criminality IV,76
painters, engaged as models young women of humble birth, IX,212
parabola, momentum of, towards death, XII,321
paradis, les vrais paradis sont les paradis qu’on a perdus, XII,v
Paris in WWI, XII,50ff
Paris, streets of, VIII,348
Parliament, “brilliant speeches that meant absolutely nothing” V,327-9
Parme, de, Princess, VI,162,203
parties, evening, sterile pleasure of, precluded penetration beneath the surface, XII,387
parties, people who give, business of selection the chief preoccupation, X,85
party, guests divisors who reduced the rest to decimal points in a sum, X,94
passion, girls’, streamed round her like her hair when she let it down, IX,61
passion, logic of, never irrefutable for the man who is not himself passionate, XII,102
past events, snapshot of, XII,356
past life, my, materials for a work of literature, XII,267
past lover, like a dead person no longer mourned VII, 154-7
past made to encroach upon the present, XI,229
past years, memories of, lacking sequence VI,123
past, a counterpoise to the future, XI,102-3
past, fragment of, stimulated by the scent of twigs of brushwood, IX,25-6
past, hidden beyond the reach of intellect I,57-8
past, identification of with the present, XI,229
past, memories of not immobile, XI,195-6
past, moments of, do not remain still, XI,100-1
past, most men’s like a photographic dark room encumbered with negatives, XII,262
past, my, and that of parents’, blended with my love for Albertine, IX,97-8
past, not fugitive but remains present VI,151-2
past, optimism the philosophy of, XI,332
past, our own I,57-8
past, reflections from, safeguards the future IV,158
past, resurrections of (via scent, noise), XII,234
past, the whole of which I was not aware I carried about within me, XII,471
past, traversing a past compounded of so many different pasts, XI,212
past, yearning towards a time now the past but mistaken for the future, XI,195-6
past: things looked at bring back all the images with which those eyes were filled,XII,248
patriotism, passion of, militarist when struggling against Dreyfusism…, XII,107
paving stone, foot on uneven, evokes memories of Venice, XI,222-4
peas, platoons of, I,163
penis, absence of, (where a man’s is marred as though by an iron clamp in a statue) IX,98
people evolve with the passage of time, XII,371
person other, destroyed when we cease to see him, IV,303
person, a, never like a straight highway IV,273
person, another, a fresh creation with every meeting IV,303
person, another, painted upon the horizon of our mind, XI,111-2
person, single, we are not, but hour by hour an army in close formation, XI,100-1
personality (de Ch’s) , transit across, of defect which is their satellite, XII,87
personality, my, of today, like an abandoned quarry, memory selecting therefrom,XII,250
personality, mysteriously enshrined as in a Tabernacle V,211
persons unknown, force us to put out from the harbour of life IV,132
phantoms, people who do not seek fortune etc, pursue phantoms VIII,217-8
phantoms, pursuing creatures that existed in my imagination VIII,217-8
phrase, concealed, involuntary, cf the work of the intellect, X,67-8
phrase, little, a stretch of country lane approached from a different angle, X,58-9
phrase, starting point in life (incl steeples, line of trees), X,74
phrase, the little, significance of II,183
piano and melancholy, VII,264
piano, power of expression no human will attain, VII,264
Picquart, Bloch’s appeal for, (Swann refuses to sign) - lukewarm VII,154-7
plagiarism, most difficult to avoid is the plagiarism of oneself, XI,25
pleasure in the presence of the beloved object like a negative film IV,239
pleasure, can one hope to transmit to the reader a pleasure one has not felt, XI,208
pleasure, from a roof, gleam of sunlight, smell of road I,245
pleasure, reflecting on the presence of the beloved object IV,239
pleasures and perceptions, a mater of perspective, XI,111-2
Poictiers, my cousin, perhaps a Dreyfusard V,196
Poire, Abbe, also becomes convinced of D’s innocence, VII, 151
politeness, excess of, VII,103
political truth like an x-ray plate – only one piece of evidence V,330
politicians unable to remember the point of view they adopted, IX,41-2
politics, truth in, does not reside in secret files of Pres de la Rep V,330
politics, truth in, elusive, eg Dreyfus case V,330
Popes, political power of, VI,203
port wine, gulf between desire and action bridged by, VII,331-2
possess, do not p. a picture if we are incapable of understanding it, XI,186
possess, exist only by virtue of what we possess, XI,99
posterity of the work of art, III,146
posthumous fame, desire for, absurdity of, XI,143-4
poverty, disagreeable but no effect on a person’s social standing (in G world), XI,309
preconceived impressions of a person, the conflict with reality, III,170
present, identification of with the past, XI,229
present, miracle of an analogy had made me escape from, XI,229
Professors, in pre-Dreyfus years still rooted in rigorously pharisaical ideas, VI,203
Professors, mediaeval gown and red cap, VI,203
promiscuity, delightful - Revisionists with protestants and Jews V,398
promiscuous youths become men of principle, the virtuous abandon themselves, XII,54
prostitutes, the object we seek they offer to us already, IX,186
pacificism, multiplies wars and indulges criminality IV,76
painters, engaged as models young women of humble birth, IX,212
parabola, momentum of, towards death, XII,321
paradis, les vrais paradis sont les paradis qu’on a perdus, XII,v
Paris in WWI, XII,50ff
Paris, streets of, VIII,348
Parliament, “brilliant speeches that meant absolutely nothing” V,327-9
Parme, de, Princess, VI,162,203
parties, evening, sterile pleasure of, precluded penetration beneath the surface, XII,387
parties, people who give, business of selection the chief preoccupation, X,85
party, guests divisors who reduced the rest to decimal points in a sum, X,94
passion, girls’, streamed round her like her hair when she let it down, IX,61
passion, logic of, never irrefutable for the man who is not himself passionate, XII,102
past events, snapshot of, XII,356
past life, my, materials for a work of literature, XII,267
past lover, like a dead person no longer mourned VII, 154-7
past made to encroach upon the present, XI,229
past years, memories of, lacking sequence VI,123
past, a counterpoise to the future, XI,102-3
past, fragment of, stimulated by the scent of twigs of brushwood, IX,25-6
past, hidden beyond the reach of intellect I,57-8
past, identification of with the present, XI,229
past, memories of not immobile, XI,195-6
past, moments of, do not remain still, XI,100-1
past, most men’s like a photographic dark room encumbered with negatives, XII,262
past, my, and that of parents’, blended with my love for Albertine, IX,97-8
past, not fugitive but remains present VI,151-2
past, optimism the philosophy of, XI,332
past, our own I,57-8
past, reflections from, safeguards the future IV,158
past, resurrections of (via scent, noise), XII,234
past, the whole of which I was not aware I carried about within me, XII,471
past, traversing a past compounded of so many different pasts, XI,212
past, yearning towards a time now the past but mistaken for the future, XI,195-6
past: things looked at bring back all the images with which those eyes were filled,XII,248
patriotism, passion of, militarist when struggling against Dreyfusism…, XII,107
paving stone, foot on uneven, evokes memories of Venice, XI,222-4
peas, platoons of, I,163
penis, absence of, (where a man’s is marred as though by an iron clamp in a statue) IX,98
people evolve with the passage of time, XII,371
person other, destroyed when we cease to see him, IV,303
person, a, never like a straight highway IV,273
person, another, a fresh creation with every meeting IV,303
person, another, painted upon the horizon of our mind, XI,111-2
person, single, we are not, but hour by hour an army in close formation, XI,100-1
personality (de Ch’s) , transit across, of defect which is their satellite, XII,87
personality, my, of today, like an abandoned quarry, memory selecting therefrom,XII,250
personality, mysteriously enshrined as in a Tabernacle V,211
persons unknown, force us to put out from the harbour of life IV,132
phantoms, people who do not seek fortune etc, pursue phantoms VIII,217-8
phantoms, pursuing creatures that existed in my imagination VIII,217-8
phrase, concealed, involuntary, cf the work of the intellect, X,67-8
phrase, little, a stretch of country lane approached from a different angle, X,58-9
phrase, starting point in life (incl steeples, line of trees), X,74
phrase, the little, significance of II,183
piano and melancholy, VII,264
piano, power of expression no human will attain, VII,264
Picquart, Bloch’s appeal for, (Swann refuses to sign) - lukewarm VII,154-7
plagiarism, most difficult to avoid is the plagiarism of oneself, XI,25
pleasure in the presence of the beloved object like a negative film IV,239
pleasure, can one hope to transmit to the reader a pleasure one has not felt, XI,208
pleasure, from a roof, gleam of sunlight, smell of road I,245
pleasure, reflecting on the presence of the beloved object IV,239
pleasures and perceptions, a mater of perspective, XI,111-2
Poictiers, my cousin, perhaps a Dreyfusard V,196
Poire, Abbe, also becomes convinced of D’s innocence, VII, 151
politeness, excess of, VII,103
political truth like an x-ray plate – only one piece of evidence V,330
politicians unable to remember the point of view they adopted, IX,41-2
politics, truth in, does not reside in secret files of Pres de la Rep V,330
politics, truth in, elusive, eg Dreyfus case V,330
Popes, political power of, VI,203
port wine, gulf between desire and action bridged by, VII,331-2
possess, do not p. a picture if we are incapable of understanding it, XI,186
possess, exist only by virtue of what we possess, XI,99
posterity of the work of art, III,146
posthumous fame, desire for, absurdity of, XI,143-4
poverty, disagreeable but no effect on a person’s social standing (in G world), XI,309
preconceived impressions of a person, the conflict with reality, III,170
present, identification of with the past, XI,229
present, miracle of an analogy had made me escape from, XI,229
Professors, in pre-Dreyfus years still rooted in rigorously pharisaical ideas, VI,203
Professors, mediaeval gown and red cap, VI,203
promiscuity, delightful - Revisionists with protestants and Jews V,398
promiscuous youths become men of principle, the virtuous abandon themselves, XII,54
prostitutes, the object we seek they offer to us already, IX,186
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railway journeys, and sunrise, hard-boiled eggs III,325
railway, see also trains
rain, I,136
rain, I,206
Raspaliere, La, Mme de Cambremer’s property for rent VII,213
reading an article, different shape takes place in the reader’s mind than author’s, XI,211
real person, perceptible only through our senses, I,112-3
realism, from age to age reacts against what the previous age has admired, XII,39
realist art, bankruptcy of, XII,248
realist art, falseness of, XI,241
reality and dream, memory of, no great difference between, XI,318
reality lies not in superficial appearance, but at a depth, appearance matters little, XI,244
reality, a connection between sensations and memories which envelop us, XII,253
recognition – “seeing someone we know” I,22
reflections, solitary, furnished me with fragments of the truth, IX,23
relatives, give hospitality to past and deceased, IX,97-8
remembrance of form, regret for a moment II,288
Renoir, a great deal of time to achieve recognition VI,21-22
reputation one under a cloud, balancing mechanism of time, XII,334
reputation, good, covers up evil habits more than falsehood, IX,275
respectable, the really, and starched vulgarity III,365
Revue des Deux Mondes, lady reading VIII,53
road, smell of, pleasure from I,245
Robert, Hubert, celebrated fountain of VII,78-9
roof, pleasure from I,245
Rue Chanoinesse V,22; VIII,348
ruin, the beauty of, I,154-5
ruins, I,230
railway journeys, and sunrise, hard-boiled eggs III,325
railway, see also trains
rain, I,136
rain, I,206
Raspaliere, La, Mme de Cambremer’s property for rent VII,213
reading an article, different shape takes place in the reader’s mind than author’s, XI,211
real person, perceptible only through our senses, I,112-3
realism, from age to age reacts against what the previous age has admired, XII,39
realist art, bankruptcy of, XII,248
realist art, falseness of, XI,241
reality and dream, memory of, no great difference between, XI,318
reality lies not in superficial appearance, but at a depth, appearance matters little, XI,244
reality, a connection between sensations and memories which envelop us, XII,253
recognition – “seeing someone we know” I,22
reflections, solitary, furnished me with fragments of the truth, IX,23
relatives, give hospitality to past and deceased, IX,97-8
remembrance of form, regret for a moment II,288
Renoir, a great deal of time to achieve recognition VI,21-22
reputation one under a cloud, balancing mechanism of time, XII,334
reputation, good, covers up evil habits more than falsehood, IX,275
respectable, the really, and starched vulgarity III,365
Revue des Deux Mondes, lady reading VIII,53
road, smell of, pleasure from I,245
Robert, Hubert, celebrated fountain of VII,78-9
roof, pleasure from I,245
Rue Chanoinesse V,22; VIII,348
ruin, the beauty of, I,154-5
ruins, I,230
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Saint-Germain, Faubourg, bourgeois, speaking to, flatter and humiliate, XI,228
Saint-Loup a Dreyfusard V,141-2,319
Saint-Loup in debt, went with carriage-horses VI,191
Saint-Loup, a Dreyfusard and almost an anti-militarist V,156,242
Saint-Loup, Gilberte becomes Marquise de, XI,347-8
Saint-Loup, Mlle de, an aspect of the two ways, XII,446-7
Saint-Loup, nephew of de Charlus, VIII,9
Saint-Loup, passes into opposite camp (anti-D) VII,154-7
Saint-Loup, Robert de, nephew of Duchesse de Guermantes, XII,447
Saturdays, I,148-155
scepticism, as regards the object of one’s studies II,46
Schlieffen, von, preparing a battle of Cannae against France V,146
school masters who do not believe in Latin exercises II,46
Schumann on the piano, melancholy, VII,264
sea and countryside, similarities VII,257
seed, contains all the nutritious substances necessary to form a plant, XII,267
self – former self and new self, changes too imperceptible to notice, XI,311-2
self, former self and present self different people, XI,248, XI,311-2
self, giving of to people who the next day will not interest us IV,164-5
self, renewal of, XI,248
self-analysis, outweighs their self-esteem, VII,319-20
self-centredness, the universe spread out in a descending scale beneath himself IV,96
self-esteem outweighed by self-analysis, VII,319-20
self-esteem, the propitious miracle of IV,95
self-renewal, XI,311-2
selves, self renewal, different selves merging into new personalities, XI,248
sensation immediate, glued to, overcomes the accumulation of labours IV,160
sentence, fair, a compromise between the false idea the judge forms… XI,41
sentences which dropped into his heart, and other words which coursed II,137
shark and its pilot analogy applied to de Charlus and mendicants, IX,274
shutters, rising like the canvas of a ship setting sail and about to proceed, IX,151
Sidaner, Le, house a sort of temple of, VII,308-9
sleep, 5 minutes seems like 3 hours, VIII,178
sleep, collision in the dark lanes of with one of those bad dreams, XI,104
sleep, extra hour of, a paralytic stroke, IX,158-9
sleep, head jerked mechanically from left to right…. VIII,148-9
sleep, like a second room with noises, servants, of its own, VIII,174
sleep, reefs of consciousness covered by high water mark of profound slumber, IX,88
sleep, the unconscious life of vegetation, IX,85
sleep, waking and dream world, IX,158-9
sleep, world of, VII,218-9
smile of some girl, air decorated with, X,50
smile, false: “form and fade like a shooting star” VII,112
snobbery, Mme de Guermantes: “Ah, so they have that sort here” VII,100
snobbishness, serious malady of the spirit but one that does not taint it as a whole, IX,8
snobbishness: pleasant beverage mixed with nutritious substance, XI,239-40
social gatherings, every drawing room a fresh universe IV,237
social groups, disintegration and reformation of, XII,396
social mobility, day will come when dressmakers will move in society, IX,55-6
social pretensions, ornaments of her pastoral visitation, social priesthood, VII,290
society, different orders of, changing like a kaleidoscope given a turn, III,125
society, position in, reconstructs itself at every moment, XI,348
society, secretly more hierarchical as it became outwardly more democratic, VI,203
Sodom, Descendants of the inhabitants of VII,1
spectatorship, everyone feels himself centre of the stage III,24
speech, a great part of what we say a recantation from memory, IX,139
spirit, consanguinity of, attracts men III,8
spiritual nature, our, total value fictitious, a jar containing VII,218-9
spoon, chink of, meant more than innumerable humanitarian conversations, XI,241
steeple, I,88
steeples of Martinville, impression of, cf Vinteuil’s music, X,233-4
steeples, cf phrase of Vinteuil, X,233
steeples, starting point in life (incl phrase, line of trees), X,74
steeples, twin, of Martinville, I,247-250
still life and Elstir IV,235
still life at the dinner table, pleasure to my imagination and appetite V,155
streetsellers, IX,151
suffering and injustice I,13
suffering, elimination of, as by the decay and refashioning of tissues, XI,248
suffering, healed of only by experiencing it to the full, XI,165
sufferings, as of virgins and lazy people, that work or fecundity would cure, XII,257
sun, glitter of gold and orange the sun splashed upon the windows of a house, XI,208
sun, had let fall a golden stream that crept to the edge of my desk II,258
sun, leaning over the sea from the hinge of the horizon IV,142
sun, like a slater up betimes III,346
sun, morning III,352
sun, setting IV,139
sun, setting, I,181-2
sun’s rays, broke the angles of the wall.. IV,1
sunbeam, which had laid down there for its midday rest II,257
sunlight, gleam of, pleasure from I,245
sunsets, (and back to cards) – Mme Verdurin VIII,70
Surgis, Mme de, (mistress of Duc de G), her two sons VII,120
Swann a Dreyfusard, deprecated by M de Guermantes VII,107-11
Swann to Saint-Loup, “Loubet on our side”, VII,136
Swann, death of, IX,270
Swann, desire to live long enough to see D pardoned and Picquart a colonel, VII, 154-7
Swann, Dreyfusism had brought him a simplicity of mind VI,374-5
Swann, his body a retort to study chemical reactions VII,138
Swann, Jewish origins, V,346,362
Swann, Mme, first assured of D’s innocence V,362
Swann, views on anti-Dreyfusism, had brought him a simplicity of mind VI,374-5
Saint-Germain, Faubourg, bourgeois, speaking to, flatter and humiliate, XI,228
Saint-Loup a Dreyfusard V,141-2,319
Saint-Loup in debt, went with carriage-horses VI,191
Saint-Loup, a Dreyfusard and almost an anti-militarist V,156,242
Saint-Loup, Gilberte becomes Marquise de, XI,347-8
Saint-Loup, Mlle de, an aspect of the two ways, XII,446-7
Saint-Loup, nephew of de Charlus, VIII,9
Saint-Loup, passes into opposite camp (anti-D) VII,154-7
Saint-Loup, Robert de, nephew of Duchesse de Guermantes, XII,447
Saturdays, I,148-155
scepticism, as regards the object of one’s studies II,46
Schlieffen, von, preparing a battle of Cannae against France V,146
school masters who do not believe in Latin exercises II,46
Schumann on the piano, melancholy, VII,264
sea and countryside, similarities VII,257
seed, contains all the nutritious substances necessary to form a plant, XII,267
self – former self and new self, changes too imperceptible to notice, XI,311-2
self, former self and present self different people, XI,248, XI,311-2
self, giving of to people who the next day will not interest us IV,164-5
self, renewal of, XI,248
self-analysis, outweighs their self-esteem, VII,319-20
self-centredness, the universe spread out in a descending scale beneath himself IV,96
self-esteem outweighed by self-analysis, VII,319-20
self-esteem, the propitious miracle of IV,95
self-renewal, XI,311-2
selves, self renewal, different selves merging into new personalities, XI,248
sensation immediate, glued to, overcomes the accumulation of labours IV,160
sentence, fair, a compromise between the false idea the judge forms… XI,41
sentences which dropped into his heart, and other words which coursed II,137
shark and its pilot analogy applied to de Charlus and mendicants, IX,274
shutters, rising like the canvas of a ship setting sail and about to proceed, IX,151
Sidaner, Le, house a sort of temple of, VII,308-9
sleep, 5 minutes seems like 3 hours, VIII,178
sleep, collision in the dark lanes of with one of those bad dreams, XI,104
sleep, extra hour of, a paralytic stroke, IX,158-9
sleep, head jerked mechanically from left to right…. VIII,148-9
sleep, like a second room with noises, servants, of its own, VIII,174
sleep, reefs of consciousness covered by high water mark of profound slumber, IX,88
sleep, the unconscious life of vegetation, IX,85
sleep, waking and dream world, IX,158-9
sleep, world of, VII,218-9
smile of some girl, air decorated with, X,50
smile, false: “form and fade like a shooting star” VII,112
snobbery, Mme de Guermantes: “Ah, so they have that sort here” VII,100
snobbishness, serious malady of the spirit but one that does not taint it as a whole, IX,8
snobbishness: pleasant beverage mixed with nutritious substance, XI,239-40
social gatherings, every drawing room a fresh universe IV,237
social groups, disintegration and reformation of, XII,396
social mobility, day will come when dressmakers will move in society, IX,55-6
social pretensions, ornaments of her pastoral visitation, social priesthood, VII,290
society, different orders of, changing like a kaleidoscope given a turn, III,125
society, position in, reconstructs itself at every moment, XI,348
society, secretly more hierarchical as it became outwardly more democratic, VI,203
Sodom, Descendants of the inhabitants of VII,1
spectatorship, everyone feels himself centre of the stage III,24
speech, a great part of what we say a recantation from memory, IX,139
spirit, consanguinity of, attracts men III,8
spiritual nature, our, total value fictitious, a jar containing VII,218-9
spoon, chink of, meant more than innumerable humanitarian conversations, XI,241
steeple, I,88
steeples of Martinville, impression of, cf Vinteuil’s music, X,233-4
steeples, cf phrase of Vinteuil, X,233
steeples, starting point in life (incl phrase, line of trees), X,74
steeples, twin, of Martinville, I,247-250
still life and Elstir IV,235
still life at the dinner table, pleasure to my imagination and appetite V,155
streetsellers, IX,151
suffering and injustice I,13
suffering, elimination of, as by the decay and refashioning of tissues, XI,248
suffering, healed of only by experiencing it to the full, XI,165
sufferings, as of virgins and lazy people, that work or fecundity would cure, XII,257
sun, glitter of gold and orange the sun splashed upon the windows of a house, XI,208
sun, had let fall a golden stream that crept to the edge of my desk II,258
sun, leaning over the sea from the hinge of the horizon IV,142
sun, like a slater up betimes III,346
sun, morning III,352
sun, setting IV,139
sun, setting, I,181-2
sun’s rays, broke the angles of the wall.. IV,1
sunbeam, which had laid down there for its midday rest II,257
sunlight, gleam of, pleasure from I,245
sunsets, (and back to cards) – Mme Verdurin VIII,70
Surgis, Mme de, (mistress of Duc de G), her two sons VII,120
Swann a Dreyfusard, deprecated by M de Guermantes VII,107-11
Swann to Saint-Loup, “Loubet on our side”, VII,136
Swann, death of, IX,270
Swann, desire to live long enough to see D pardoned and Picquart a colonel, VII, 154-7
Swann, Dreyfusism had brought him a simplicity of mind VI,374-5
Swann, his body a retort to study chemical reactions VII,138
Swann, Jewish origins, V,346,362
Swann, Mme, first assured of D’s innocence V,362
Swann, views on anti-Dreyfusism, had brought him a simplicity of mind VI,374-5
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talent, and the new writer I,132-3
talents, humble, of public servants, multiplied by Government and Church VI,175
talents, real, mediocre persons, disciples, achieving the position of their masters, VIII,18
talking, each without regard to what the other was saying VII,54-5
tea-party, lower one’s social standing to attend, V,402
tears, drop by drop, like a fine penetrating rain VI,118
telephone, electricity, new inventions III,256
telephone, wonders of, influence V,176-7,181
theatre boxes, inhabited by white deities V,44
things, retain something of the eyes which have looked at them; analogy to us, XII,248
thinking, habit of, prevents us from reeling reality, XI,256
thought, the, had settled on his knee like a pet animal II,72
thought, train of, bar linking something heard with disagreeable, XII,443
time and oblivion: gradually destroys in us the surviving past, XI,199
Time Lost, drawing room transformations, XII,395
Time that was Lost, rediscovered, XI,229
Time, a mask in the collection, adding layer to layer slowly, XII,315
time, and oblivion, XI,246
time, balancing mechanism of, XII,334
Time, colourless and inapprehensible time, XII,450
time, contemporary attitude to, compared with Roman times, VII,313
time, days past cover those that preceded them.., like a book in the library, XI,175-6
time, fragments of existence withdrawn from, XII,234
time, makes family quarrels recede into the distance, XII,334
Time, man in the dimension of , XII,473-4
time, man surrounded by the walls of, XI,272
time, memory, loss of perspective, XI,246
time, minutes accounted for since railways invented, VII,313
time, moving universe whirled along by, snapshot immobilises it, XII,356
time, optical errors in, as in space, XI,246
time, order of, minute freed from, has created man freed from the order of time, XII,230
time, our mistakes an invisible dust between the peace of nature, XII,334
time, outside – extra-temporal experiences, XI,229
time, passing of, new fashionable elite every ten years, XII,356
time, passing of; wisest judgments of previous generation proved unwise, XI,308
time, people evolve with the passage of, XII,371
time, psychology of, XI,199
time, seems not to move, like the earth III,76
Time: star shaped cross-roads in a forest (Mlle de Saint-Loup). XII,446-7
time’s special express trains, XII,329
tongue, made me a gift of her t. like a gift of the Holy Spirit, IX,96
tongue, motherly, inedible, nourishing and holy, trying to part my lips, XI,112
train stops to Saint-Mars-le-Vetu, VIII,7
train, promises accessibility of the town; car enters town by the wings, VIII,208
train, see also railway
transit across de Ch’s personality of defect which is their satellite, XII,87
translator’s dedication, III, intro
trees, grotto of a dense mass of VI,111
trees, line of, cf phrase of Vinteuil, X,233
trees, line of, starting point in life (incl phrase, steeples), X,74
trees, the three.. their simple, passionate gesticulation IV,23
truth, fragments of, furnished by solitary reflections, IX,23
truth, telling only part of, details don’t fit II,84
twins, identical, nature offering a pattern for sale, VIII,1
two ways not as irreconcilable as I had supposed, XI,373
two ways of Combray, my whole life a prolongation of, XII,448
two ways, Mlle de Saint-Loup an aspect of, XII,447
two ways, people develop in on way inside us, but in another way outside us.. XI,115
two ways, the I,183
talent, and the new writer I,132-3
talents, humble, of public servants, multiplied by Government and Church VI,175
talents, real, mediocre persons, disciples, achieving the position of their masters, VIII,18
talking, each without regard to what the other was saying VII,54-5
tea-party, lower one’s social standing to attend, V,402
tears, drop by drop, like a fine penetrating rain VI,118
telephone, electricity, new inventions III,256
telephone, wonders of, influence V,176-7,181
theatre boxes, inhabited by white deities V,44
things, retain something of the eyes which have looked at them; analogy to us, XII,248
thinking, habit of, prevents us from reeling reality, XI,256
thought, the, had settled on his knee like a pet animal II,72
thought, train of, bar linking something heard with disagreeable, XII,443
time and oblivion: gradually destroys in us the surviving past, XI,199
Time Lost, drawing room transformations, XII,395
Time that was Lost, rediscovered, XI,229
Time, a mask in the collection, adding layer to layer slowly, XII,315
time, and oblivion, XI,246
time, balancing mechanism of, XII,334
Time, colourless and inapprehensible time, XII,450
time, contemporary attitude to, compared with Roman times, VII,313
time, days past cover those that preceded them.., like a book in the library, XI,175-6
time, fragments of existence withdrawn from, XII,234
time, makes family quarrels recede into the distance, XII,334
Time, man in the dimension of , XII,473-4
time, man surrounded by the walls of, XI,272
time, memory, loss of perspective, XI,246
time, minutes accounted for since railways invented, VII,313
time, moving universe whirled along by, snapshot immobilises it, XII,356
time, optical errors in, as in space, XI,246
time, order of, minute freed from, has created man freed from the order of time, XII,230
time, our mistakes an invisible dust between the peace of nature, XII,334
time, outside – extra-temporal experiences, XI,229
time, passing of, new fashionable elite every ten years, XII,356
time, passing of; wisest judgments of previous generation proved unwise, XI,308
time, people evolve with the passage of, XII,371
time, psychology of, XI,199
time, seems not to move, like the earth III,76
Time: star shaped cross-roads in a forest (Mlle de Saint-Loup). XII,446-7
time’s special express trains, XII,329
tongue, made me a gift of her t. like a gift of the Holy Spirit, IX,96
tongue, motherly, inedible, nourishing and holy, trying to part my lips, XI,112
train stops to Saint-Mars-le-Vetu, VIII,7
train, promises accessibility of the town; car enters town by the wings, VIII,208
train, see also railway
transit across de Ch’s personality of defect which is their satellite, XII,87
translator’s dedication, III, intro
trees, grotto of a dense mass of VI,111
trees, line of, cf phrase of Vinteuil, X,233
trees, line of, starting point in life (incl phrase, steeples), X,74
trees, the three.. their simple, passionate gesticulation IV,23
truth, fragments of, furnished by solitary reflections, IX,23
truth, telling only part of, details don’t fit II,84
twins, identical, nature offering a pattern for sale, VIII,1
two ways not as irreconcilable as I had supposed, XI,373
two ways of Combray, my whole life a prolongation of, XII,448
two ways, Mlle de Saint-Loup an aspect of, XII,447
two ways, people develop in on way inside us, but in another way outside us.. XI,115
two ways, the I,183
U
uniform vision, in one, the buildings of antiquity and the contemporary III,80
V
Verdurin clan, centre of a political crisis - maximum intensity: D’ism, VII,199-200
Verdurin, Mme de, a deity presiding over musical rites, X,58-9
Verdurin, Mme de, reshaping her salon after the D case, X,39-42
Verdurin, Mme de, social retardation the D case had inflicted upon her, X,39-42
Verdurin, Mme, a sincere D’ard; preponderant D’ism if her salon, VIII,43-4
Verdurin, Mme, affected appreciation, VIII,72-3
Verdurin, Mme, sunsets and back to cards, VIII,70
Verdurin, Mme’s dinner parties, Wednesday’s at La Raspeliere, VIII,5
Verdurins, a timid evolution to fashionable ways retarded by the D case, VIII,22
Vermeer’s pictures, fragments of an identical world, cf Hardy’s works, X,236
viaduct, I,154-5
vice, transit across de Ch’s personality of generic defect which is their satellite, XII,87
vies and compromises, inherited, the result of inbreeding, XII,358
view from the window, devotions as before a shrine IV,141
Villeparisis, Mme de - Bloch not to come to house again V,340
Villeparisis, Mme de tea party – Narrator leaves, V,391
Villeparisis, Mme de tea party (guests’ views about Dreyfus) V,257 ff,299,319,324,-5
Villeparisis, Mme de IV,8
Villeparisis, Mme de, family tree aspects, VI,317
Vinteuil, little phrase, X,63,67-8
Vinteuil, Mlle, and her father’s photo I,218-227
Vinteuil, phrase, cf line of trees, steeples, madeleine, X,233,242
Vinteuil’s daughter, I,201
Vinteuil’s music, clear sounds, blazing colours of, like perfume of a geranium, X,233-4
Vinteuil’s music, defies analysis, but not necessarily the same depth as tastes etc, X,242
Vinteuil’s phrases, vf the sensation of the madeleine, vagueness, profundity of, X,242
virtue and intellect, and charm, II,13
virtues, conceal backgarden tragedies, I,166
virtuous men abandon themselves, the promiscuous become men of principle, XII,54
vocation , all my life a, a plant in embryo, a seed XII,267
uniform vision, in one, the buildings of antiquity and the contemporary III,80
V
Verdurin clan, centre of a political crisis - maximum intensity: D’ism, VII,199-200
Verdurin, Mme de, a deity presiding over musical rites, X,58-9
Verdurin, Mme de, reshaping her salon after the D case, X,39-42
Verdurin, Mme de, social retardation the D case had inflicted upon her, X,39-42
Verdurin, Mme, a sincere D’ard; preponderant D’ism if her salon, VIII,43-4
Verdurin, Mme, affected appreciation, VIII,72-3
Verdurin, Mme, sunsets and back to cards, VIII,70
Verdurin, Mme’s dinner parties, Wednesday’s at La Raspeliere, VIII,5
Verdurins, a timid evolution to fashionable ways retarded by the D case, VIII,22
Vermeer’s pictures, fragments of an identical world, cf Hardy’s works, X,236
viaduct, I,154-5
vice, transit across de Ch’s personality of generic defect which is their satellite, XII,87
vies and compromises, inherited, the result of inbreeding, XII,358
view from the window, devotions as before a shrine IV,141
Villeparisis, Mme de - Bloch not to come to house again V,340
Villeparisis, Mme de tea party – Narrator leaves, V,391
Villeparisis, Mme de tea party (guests’ views about Dreyfus) V,257 ff,299,319,324,-5
Villeparisis, Mme de IV,8
Villeparisis, Mme de, family tree aspects, VI,317
Vinteuil, little phrase, X,63,67-8
Vinteuil, Mlle, and her father’s photo I,218-227
Vinteuil, phrase, cf line of trees, steeples, madeleine, X,233,242
Vinteuil’s daughter, I,201
Vinteuil’s music, clear sounds, blazing colours of, like perfume of a geranium, X,233-4
Vinteuil’s music, defies analysis, but not necessarily the same depth as tastes etc, X,242
Vinteuil’s phrases, vf the sensation of the madeleine, vagueness, profundity of, X,242
virtue and intellect, and charm, II,13
virtues, conceal backgarden tragedies, I,166
virtuous men abandon themselves, the promiscuous become men of principle, XII,54
vocation , all my life a, a plant in embryo, a seed XII,267
W
Wagner, harmony of, enables us to know quality of another person’s sensations, IX,210
Wagner, reality in the work of, IX,210
Wagner’s music, analysis of, IX,210-11
Wagnerian leitmotiv, XI,36
waiters, a procession of operatic high priests V,223
waking world and dream world, IX,158-9
waking, same effort at equilibrium as when a man jumps from a moving train, IX,158-9
street vendors, IX,179
war left a scum of universal fatuousness in its wake, XI,205
war, “never know there was a war going on here” XII,50
war, another (=WWI) , predictions concerning form it will take V,146
war, declared afresh every morning, XII,132
war, idea of seemed natural, because they could think of nothing else, XI,163
water lilies, I,232
ways, the two, not as irreconcilable as I had supposed, XI,373
ways, two, see two ways
weather, change in, sufficient to create the world and oneself anew, VI,49
wind, a cruel deprivation on account of the window III,353
window framed in honeysuckle, rustic avenue IV,196
window, transparent but closed, like a glass case in a museum III,353
woman, ‘kept’ II,69
woman, live with, cease to see things that made you love her VI,58
woman, protracted relations with, will substitute fresh visions for old, III.58
woman, we are sculptors; we seek a statue different from that which she presents IX,186
women ‘not their type’ , sufferings caused to men by, XII,436
women, collector of VI,58
women, never ask for anything better than to make love III,210
words and phrases which are a contradiction in terms: use of, tiresome, XII,73
words, diplomat’s economy with III,8
world around us, created afresh as often as an original artist is born, V,21-22
world, creation of, did not occur at the beginning of time, but occurs every day, XI,348
world, pattern of, constantly being refashioned, XII,432
writer, artist, proceeds on the lines adopted by oculists, VI,21,22
writer, the new, and talent I,132-3
writer’s error, need to force self to pass through states to realise impression, XI,244
writer’s fame, whilst living and after death VI,19-20
writers, best, cease to have any talent with the approach of old age…, XII,411
WWI, Paris in, XII,50ff
Wagner, harmony of, enables us to know quality of another person’s sensations, IX,210
Wagner, reality in the work of, IX,210
Wagner’s music, analysis of, IX,210-11
Wagnerian leitmotiv, XI,36
waiters, a procession of operatic high priests V,223
waking world and dream world, IX,158-9
waking, same effort at equilibrium as when a man jumps from a moving train, IX,158-9
street vendors, IX,179
war left a scum of universal fatuousness in its wake, XI,205
war, “never know there was a war going on here” XII,50
war, another (=WWI) , predictions concerning form it will take V,146
war, declared afresh every morning, XII,132
war, idea of seemed natural, because they could think of nothing else, XI,163
water lilies, I,232
ways, the two, not as irreconcilable as I had supposed, XI,373
ways, two, see two ways
weather, change in, sufficient to create the world and oneself anew, VI,49
wind, a cruel deprivation on account of the window III,353
window framed in honeysuckle, rustic avenue IV,196
window, transparent but closed, like a glass case in a museum III,353
woman, ‘kept’ II,69
woman, live with, cease to see things that made you love her VI,58
woman, protracted relations with, will substitute fresh visions for old, III.58
woman, we are sculptors; we seek a statue different from that which she presents IX,186
women ‘not their type’ , sufferings caused to men by, XII,436
women, collector of VI,58
women, never ask for anything better than to make love III,210
words and phrases which are a contradiction in terms: use of, tiresome, XII,73
words, diplomat’s economy with III,8
world around us, created afresh as often as an original artist is born, V,21-22
world, creation of, did not occur at the beginning of time, but occurs every day, XI,348
world, pattern of, constantly being refashioned, XII,432
writer, artist, proceeds on the lines adopted by oculists, VI,21,22
writer, the new, and talent I,132-3
writer’s error, need to force self to pass through states to realise impression, XI,244
writer’s fame, whilst living and after death VI,19-20
writers, best, cease to have any talent with the approach of old age…, XII,411
WWI, Paris in, XII,50ff
Y
youth, exuberant with IV,126
youth, social gatherings, every drawing room a fresh universe IV,237
youth, the only time we learned anything, IV,39
Z
Zola trial, VI,127
Zola, “Homer of the Sewers”, VI,259
Zola, criticised by Brichot for discovering poetry in a working class home… XII,108
Zola, would have stood his trial to enjoy a sensation he had not yet tried, IX,46
youth, exuberant with IV,126
youth, social gatherings, every drawing room a fresh universe IV,237
youth, the only time we learned anything, IV,39
Z
Zola trial, VI,127
Zola, “Homer of the Sewers”, VI,259
Zola, criticised by Brichot for discovering poetry in a working class home… XII,108
Zola, would have stood his trial to enjoy a sensation he had not yet tried, IX,46