"on the contrary prolonged past measure, for simultaneously, like giants plunged into the years, they touch the distant epochs through which they have lived, between which so many days have come to range themselves-- in Time. #Proust6 #TimeRegained #ProustForever p 532
5/5

"own height, of many leagues, at the long series of years...So, if I were given long enought...I should not fail, even if the effect were to make them resemble monsters, to describe men as occupying so considerable a place 4/5 #Proust6 #TimeRegained #ProustForever p 532
4/4

"on the contrary prolonged past measure, for simultaneously, like giants plunged into the years, they touch the distant epochs through which they have lived, between which so many days have come to range themselves-- in Time. #Proust6 #TimeRegained #ProustForever p 532
5/5

"as I say, a sensation of weariness and almost of terror at the the thought that all this length of Time had not only, without interruption, been lived, experienced, secreted by me, that it was my life, was in fact me, but also that I was compelled so long as I was 2/5 #Proust6 #TimeRegained p 530

"In this vast dimension which I had not known myself to possess, the date on which I had heard the noise of the garden bell at Combray-- that far-distant noise which nevertheless was within me-- was a point from which I might start to make measurements. And I felt, 1/5 #Proust6 #TimeRegained p 530