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Quotation from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
“remembrance of a particular form is but regret for a particular moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fugitive, alas, as the years.”
Swann's Way, Place-Names: The Name, closing sentence, trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff (1922)
The last words of the volume, as the adult narrator walks in the Bois de Boulogne and finds the scenes of his youth gone.
Citation: "remembrance of a particular form is but regret for a particular moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fugitive, alas, as the years." — Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, Place-Names: The Name, closing sentence, trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff (1922). (id proust-swanns-way-q7)
Portrait: Marcel Proust 1895, Otto Wegener, Public domain.
