Du côté de chez Swann -
A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs -
Le côté de Guermantes
Sodome et Gomorrhe -
La prisonnière -
Albertine disparue -
Le temps retrouvé
The Sweet Cheat Gone - Grief and Oblivion
1294 Mademoiselle Albertine has gone!1295 The first thing to be done was to read Albertine’s letter1296 All this means nothing1297 This calamity was the greatest that I had experienced in my1298 When I vowed to myself that Albertine would be back1299 Suffering, the prolongation of a spiritual shock1300 The spirit in which Albertine had left me1301 As for the means of bringing Albertine back1302 The reader may remember that when I decided to live with1303 Knowing that Saint-Loup was in Paris I had sent for him1304 You are sure,” Robert asked me1305 When it was possible that a telegram might have come1306 Presently, as Saint-Loup remained silent1307 Since Manon returned to Des Grieux1308 I wrote to Albertine1309 No doubt, just as I had said in the past to Albertine1310 As this letter seemed to me to be certain of its effect1311 Time passes, and gradually everything that we have said1312 I have said that oblivion was beginning to perform1313 While she was doing Albertine’s room1314 If, however, morning, noon and night1315 Why should I have supposed that Albertine did not care for1316 My dear, thank you for all the nice things1317 Albertine’s letter did not help matters in any way1318 And at the same time1319 I forsook all pride with regard to Albertine1320 For the death of Albertine1321 So, then, my life was entirely altered1322 I asked Françoise the time1323 How slow the day is in dying on these interminable summer1324 Presently the sounds from the streets would begin1325 No doubt these nights that are so short continue1326 With the result that these several years1327 How could she have seemed dead to me1328 If I had found it difficult to imagine that Albertine1329 Atmospheric changes, provoking other changes1330 All of a sudden it was an impression1331 Sometimes I came in collision1332 Of course, since I entertained doubts1333 What filled my heart now was1334 This room in which we used to dine1335 One morning I thought that I could see1336 Furthermore, our mistake is our failure to value1337 All these so pleasant moments1338 And, to tell the truth, when I had ever possessed it1339 How she used to hasten to see me at Balbec1340 And yet those painful, those ineluctable truths1341 At any rate I was glad that, before she died1342 Why had she not said to me: I have those tastes1343 My jealous curiosity as to what Albertine1344 If she could have known what was about to happen1345 I had not yet received any news from Aimé1346 Albertine might indeed exist in my memory1347 Monsieur will kindly forgive me for not having written1348 To understand how deeply these words penetrated my being1349 At last I saw before my eyes, in that arrival of Albertine1350 No doubt it was because in that silent1351 I saw myself astray in life1352 The moments which I had spent with this Albertine1353 And now Albertine, liberated once more1354 At other times my grief assumed so many forms1355 There are in certain affections secondary accidents1356 If, again, this withdrawal of my different impressions1357 Moreover these revivals of my love for Albertine1358 Moreover a word did not even need to be connected1359 All day long, I continued to converse with Albertine1360 I tried at times to take an interest in the newspapers1361 No doubt an incident such as this of the Buttes-Chaumont1362 For the first time she seemed to me beautiful1363 While Albertine was alive1364 Novelists sometimes pretend in an introduction1365 Associated now with the memory of my love, Albertine’s1366 I took home with me the girls who had appealed