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Quotation from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

“For a long time I used to go to bed early.”

Marcel Proust (spoken by Narrator)

Swann's Way, Overture, opening sentence, trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff (1922)

Portrait of Marcel Proust

The first sentence of the whole novel, introducing the half-waking states in which memories of many rooms return.

Citation: "For a long time I used to go to bed early." — Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, Overture, opening sentence, trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff (1922). (id proust-swanns-way-q1)

Portrait: Marcel Proust 1895, Otto Wegener, Public domain.

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