Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.

The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.

The Satires of Persius

We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.

A Shadow Passes

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

He Himself makes the mortals anxious, and He Himself takes the anxiety away.

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

What should the yogi have to fear? Trees, plants, and all that is inside and outside, is He Himself

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Nanak, the whole world is in distress. He, who believes in the Name, becomes victorious.

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

But was not an aesthetic criterion that Flashjack, as a faery, had terribly high on his list of priorities; it was well below and nowhere near .

Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

In Search of Lost Time

The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection.

Say Uncle

On the shining yards of heaven See a wider dawn unfurled. . . . The eternal slaves of beauty Are the masters of the world.

Songs from Vagabondia

... it was with an unusual intensity of pleasure, a pleasure destined to have a lasting effect upon his character and conduct...

Swann's Way

... it had arrested for all eternity the moment which it had been trying to make pass more quickly.

Swann's Way

In the V-shaped opening of her crape bodice Mlle. Vinteuil felt the sting of her friend's sudden kiss;...

Swann's Way

It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil.

Swann's Way

Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow.

Swann's Way

And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream.

Swann's Way

... "Why did you not forget your heart also? I should never have let you have that back." ...

Swann's Way

The anaesthetic effect of habit being destroyed, I would begin to think - and to feel - such melancholy things.

Swann's Way

... the idea that 'Life' contains situations more interesting and more romantic than all the romances ever written.

Swann's Way

I would feel the satisfaction of being shut in from the outer world...

Swann's Way