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Updated: June 25, 2025
In that way Vinteuil's phrase, like some theme, say, in Tristan, which represents to us also a certain acquisition of sentiment, has espoused our mortal state, had endued a vesture of humanity that was affecting enough. Its destiny was linked, for the future, with that of the human soul, of which it was one of the special, the most distinctive ornaments.
"Anyhow, if there is nothing in it, I don't suppose it's because our friend believes in her virtue. And yet, you never know; he seems to believe in her intelligence. I don't know whether you heard the way he lectured her the other evening about Vinteuil's sonata. I am devoted to Odette, but really to expound theories of aesthetic to her the man must be a prize idiot."
Vinteuil's ear something that I could not distinguish. "Oh! You would never dare." "Not dare to spit on it? On that?" shouted the friend with deliberate brutality. I heard no more, for Mlle.
But you don't dare to confess that you don't know Vinteuil's sonata; you have no right not to know it!" and the painter had gone on with, "Ah, yes, it's a very fine bit of work, isn't it?
He is a neighbour of M. Vinteuil's, and I never knew; and he is so nice besides." "M. Vinteuil is not the only one who has nice neighbours," cried my aunt Celine in a voice which seemed loud because she was so timid, and seemed forced because she had been planning the little speech for so long; darting, as she spoke, what she called a 'significant glance' at Swann.
And before Swann had had time to understand what was happening, to think: "It is the little phrase from Vinteuil's sonata.
Cottard, typical, in this respect, of the public, were incapable of finding, either in Vinteuil's sonata or in Biche's portraits, what constituted harmony, for them, in music or beauty in painting.
We really must have her to dine here one evening." "To be sure!" said her sister Flora, "but I haven't wasted my time either. I met such a clever old gentleman at M. Vinteuil's who knows Maubant quite well, and Maubant has told him every little thing about how he gets up his parts. It is the most interesting thing I ever heard.
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