On the Way Home

   Thus it was that I envisaged the task before me, a task which would not end until I had achieved what I had so ardently desired in my w...

   The idea of Time was of value to me for yet another reason: it was a spur, it told me that it was time to begin if I wished to attain t...

   I saw Gilberte coming across the room towards me.  For me the marriage of Saint-Loup and the thoughts which filled my mind at that date...

   I have said that it would be impossible to depict our relationship with anyone whom we have even slightly known without passing in revi...

Certainly, if he was thinking purely of the human heart, the poet was right when he spoke of the "mysterious threads" which are ...

"Perhaps I shouldn't say it, because after all she is my niece and I have no absolute proof that she was unfaithful to him, but t...

"The truth is," she went on with a melancholy air, "that I have spent my life in cloistered seclusion because my great love...