There was once a book ranking list called "10 books that can't be read even if you kill me" , and "Remembering the Years" ranked fourth in it. "Remembering the Years" is a novel created by the 20th century French novelist Marcel Proust. The book has seven volumes in total. The novel is hailed as a masterpiece of one of the most important literary works of the twentieth century. has become popular all over the world with its outstanding description of spiritual pursuit and excellent stream of consciousness techniques and established its position in contemporary world literature. If you can’t finish reading “Remembrance of the Years Like Water”, you can read at least these 50 excerpts!
Author: Marcel Proust
1. Always try to keep a sky above your life.
2. The so-called understanding is only about one's own understanding. We can almost also say that the so-called jealousy is only jealous of oneself; the behavior of others is insignificant; we can only lead to wisdom and pain from the happiness we feel.
3. We will not feel physical pain when we hear his name, nor will we tremble when we see his handwriting. We will not change our itinerary in order to meet him on the street. Emotional reality gradually becomes psychological reality and becomes our spiritual status: indifference and forgetfulness.
4. Life is just a series of isolated moments. With memories and fantasies, many meanings emerge, then disappear, and then appear again. Like a series of waves jumping in the sea.
5. I will eventually forget the paths, mountains and fields in my dreams, and forget those dreams that will never be realized.
6. Let my tears flow so far, so that my lover will never know that there was one day when I cried for him, and let my tears flow so far, so that maybe I can forget the Pizhu River, the monastery, the churches of Mount Pirinius, those mysterious Ji, and the paths we both walked together.
7. When reality is folded and firmly attached to our long-term dreams, it covers the dream and mixes it with it, just like two identical figures overlapping into one .
8. Those who do not love us are like missing persons, and although we know there is no hope, we still look forward to it. Wait for a little movement and a little sound.
9. In fact, when we are in love, we foresee the ending in the future, and it is this foresight that makes us cry.
10. You guys have gone away, disappeared, and all I can do is not forget.
11. I realized that if a man knew a woman through imagination, he would imagine that there was infinite beauty behind the woman's small face; on the contrary, if he knew it in the most vulgar way, then the things he was obsessed with might be broken down into trivial and meaningless material components.
12. One day, the person who has loved, suffered, and participated in a revolution will not leave anything.
13. The self who is addicted to love cannot imagine what it will look like if the same self is freed from love in a few years.
14. And what’s a pity is that houses, streets, and roads are as fleeting as time goes by.
15. We are in vain to the places we once loved, and we will never be able to revisit them because they are not in space, but in time, because the person who revisits the old place is no longer the children or teenagers who once decorate that place with their enthusiasm.
16. However, our successive elves do not completely disappear because they can reproduce in our sleep, even in a state of awakeness. Every morning, after a moment of confusion, we re-owned ourselves, which means we have never completely lost it.
17. So time seems to have completely disappeared, but it is not, it is integrated with ourselves. The pursuit seems to have been lost, but it is still there, ready to regenerate at any time.
18. In fact, this world is unreal, at least it is unrecognizable, because the world we see is always distorted by our own desires.
19. How many eyes are opened every morning, how many people's consciousness wake up, and how many worlds are there.
20.The difference between love itself and our views on love is vastly different.
21. The lover we used our own imagination as materials when we met and met has nothing to do with the real person who will be our lifelong companion in the future.
22. When reality is folded and firmly attached to our long-term dreams, it covers the dream and mixes it with it, just like two identical figures overlapping and becoming one.
23. I now understand that all serious mistakes have one common nature: that is, there is no urge to restrain emotions.
24. Time was given by God, and we didn't need to spend money.
25. It's like some people traveling, wanting to witness the city-state they have been thinking about day and night, and thinking that they can enjoy charming dreams in reality.
26. Let the chilly spring breeze blow the first rose of the colorful butterfly waiting at the door early in the morning.
27. When I arrived in Venice, I found that my dream had become my address.
28. People and things that look beautiful and mysterious from a distance, as long as you look closer, you will understand that they are neither mysterious nor beautiful.
29. When the years pass and everything disappears, only the smell floating in the air is still reunited, leaving the past vivid in my mind.
30. For a long time, I lay down early. Sometimes, the candles just went out, and my eyelids closed immediately, and I didn’t have time to mutter: ‘I’m going to fall asleep. ’It took half an hour to think that I should go to bed; by thinking about it, I woke up. I plan to put the book I thought I was still holding in my hand and blow out the lights. When I was asleep, I kept thinking about the book I just read, but my thoughts were a bit special; I always felt that what the book said, such as churches, quartets, François I and Charles V were all directly related to me. This thought lasted for several seconds until I woke up; it was not very contrary to my rationality, but it blinded my eyes like an eye mask, making me realize that the candlelight had already been extinguished. Later, it began to become puzzling, as if it was the thought of the previous life. After reincarnation, it came to me. So the content in the book was out of touch with me. Whether I would like to be attached to it or not depends on myself.
31. The perfect life is to have memories.
32. When a person cannot have it, the only thing he can do is not forget it.
33. The most essential part of our memory is preserved in our external world, in the humid air on rainy days, in the smell of claustrophobic space, in the fragrance of the newly-ignited fireplace, that is, in every place, as long as our reason abandons things that have been discarded as useless are rediscovered. That is the last reservation of the past years, its essence, and after our tears dry, we burst into tears again.
34. However, there is always a boundary between the church and all residences that are not churches.
35. The life in memory is more realistic than the real life in the local area at that time.
36. The only real paradise is the paradise we have lost, and the only attractive world is the world we have not stepped into yet.
37. When we are in love, love is so huge that we cannot accommodate it ourselves. It radiates to the loved one, touches her surface, is intercepted, and is forced to return to the starting point. This rebound in our own feelings is mistaken for the other person's feelings. The rebound is more fascinating than launching, because we cannot see that this love comes from us.
38. Just like Vanderi's septet, two of the themes - the time to destroy everything and the memory to save everything - are facing each other.
39. He still hopes to live until he no longer loves her.
40. Memory, like a worker who builds a solid foundation for a building in the surging waves, can provide us with textiles of escape phrases, but cannot allow us to compare and distinguish the phrases that follow them.
41. Usually, others have nothing to do with us, that when one of them can dominate our sorrows and joys, we will feel that he belongs to another world, full of poetry and painting, and can turn our lives into a sea of emotions with which we are.
42. The same goes for the past. We try every means to recall, but it is always useless to rack our brains. It is hidden outside the mind, beyond the ability of intelligence; it is hidden in something we unexpectedly have (hidden in the feeling that the object gives us), and whether we can encounter that thing before death is entirely accidental, and we may not be able to touch it until death.
43. Reality is only formed in my memories.
44. Because anything, even pain, cannot last and be eternal.
45. In love, it is easier to give up a feeling than to lose a habit.
46. All kinds of chance opportunities make us meet some people. This opportunity is not consistent with the time when we love them. It may happen before love begins, or it may reappear after love has been destroyed. Looking back afterwards, the initial appearance of the person we destined to be in our lives is always of a preview or aura. What allows us to create a work is not the desire to become famous and family, but the habit of diligence; what helps us protect the future is not the joy in front of us, but the thinking about the past. What helps our disabled minds take the right path is rational thinking and self-control.
47. When people die and everything in the past disappears, only the smell and taste last. They are like souls. Although they are relatively fragile, they are more energetic, more illusory, more lasting, and more faithful. Their memories, waiting, and expectations are on the ruins of all other things, on their almost unimaginable little water droplets, and the Hongwei Building that unyieldingly carries memory.
48. Under the action of the law of cause and effect, almost all possible results will eventually occur, and the results that are considered to be the least likely will also occur. This effect is sometimes slow and is even slower because of our wishes - it can be said that haste is not achieved - and it is also slow to make it slow, and this effect produces results only when we no longer hope, sometimes on the day we no longer survive.
49. People therefore concluded that this phenomenon of elites succumb to vulgarity has become a routine in many families. On the contrary, many excellent ladies are fascinated by dull men who ruthlessly accuse them of wonderful words. When they hear this kind of dull joke, they become extremely tolerant because of love and admire them.
50. The great saints of the church often come into contact with all human sins while keeping themselves clean and gaining their own personal sacredness. The same is true for great artists. They often use their bad habits to draw moral standards for us all while doing evil.
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