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Reflexions on the work he has now decided to undertake: 262–336, 505–31; deciphering “the inner book of unknown symbols”: 274; “this most wonderful of all days”: 287; the work of art “the only means of rediscovering Lost Time;” the materials for his work stored up inside him: 304; “my whole life … might and yet might not have been summed up under the title: A Vocation”: 304; Albertine, by causing him to suffer, more valuable to him than a secretary to arrange his “paperies”: 320 (cf. 511); Swann the inspiration for his book: 328; his discovery of the destructive action of Time at the very moment of conceiving the ambition to intellectualise extra-temporal realities in a work of art: 351, 355; his duty to his work more important than that of being polite or even kind: 435–36; the readers of his book will be the readers of their own selves: 508; a church or a druid monument?: 520; his indifference to criticism: 521; the Arabian Nights or the Memoirs of Saint-Simon of another age?: 524–25; the dimension of Time: 526–32 (cf. 505–12). “In this book … there is not a single incident which is not fictitious, not a single character who is a real person in disguise … everything has been invented by me in accordance with the requirements of my theme”: VI 345.

LOVE. Prerequisite of love, that it should win us admission to an unknown life: I 139. Love may come into being without any foundation in desire: 277. Modes of production of love; “the insensate, agonising need to possess exclusively”: 327. The illusion that love exists outside ourselves: 569–70. Love creates “a supplementary person”: II 54. “No peace of mind in love;” “a permanent strain of suffering”: 213–14. Love “radiates towards the loved one,” then returns to its starting-point, oneself: 252–53. “Not like war”: 275. Effects of absence and the passage of time; sufferers from love’s sickness are “their own physicians”: 279–83. Effects of Habit: 301 (cf. V 478–79, 577; VI 346). “Those who love and those who enjoy are not always the same”: 304. Features of our first love attach themselves to those that follow: 561–62 (cf. 647–18; V 921; VI 347). “The most exclusive love for a person is always a love for something else”: 563. The women we love are “a negative of our sensibility”: 647. “Loving helps us to discern, to discriminate”: 666. Silence is “a terrible strength in the hands of those who are loved”: III 157–58. The illusion on which the pains of love are based: 210–11. Mme Leroi on love: “I make it often but I never talk about it”: 260. “A charming law of nature,” that we live in ignorance of those we love: 382. Memories are accompaniments to carnal desire: 493–95. “The moment preceding pleasure” restores to Albertine’s features “the innocence of earliest childhood”: 501. Self-deception and subjectivity of love: 507. Role of costume in love: 529. Intimacy creates social ties which outlast love: 530–31. “This terrible need of a person”: IV 179–80. Role of pity in love: the human need to “repair the wrongs” we do to the loved one: 313. Love makes us “at once more distrustful and more credulous”: 315. Those who love us and whom we do not love seem insufferable: 431. The “invisible forces” within the woman we love to which we address ourselves “as to obscure deities”: 718–19. “The possession of what we love is an even greater joy than love itself: V 58. Apostrophe to girls—to define them we need to cease to be sexually interested in them: 77–80. “O mighty attitudes of Man and Woman”: 97. “Beneath any carnal attraction that goes at all deep, there is the permanent possibility of danger”: 100. “Love is an incurable malady”: 105. More than any others, “fugitive beings” inspire love: 113–17. The object of our love is “the extension of that being to all the points in space and time that it has occupied and will occupy”: 125; the “revolving searchlights of jealousy”: 129; love is “kept in existence only by painful anxiety,” “we love only what we do not wholly possess”: 133. Love is “reciprocal torture”: 137. “To be harsh and deceitful to the person whom we love is so natural!”: 139.