In reading, friendship is restored immediately to its original purity. With books there is no forced sociability. If we pass the evening with those friendsbooksits because we really want to. When we leave them, we do so with regret and, when we have left them, there are none of those thoughts that spoil friendship: What did they think of us?Did we make a mistake and say something tactless?Did they like us?nor is there the anxiety of being forgotten because of displacement by someone else. All such agitating thoughts expire as we enter the pure and calm friendship of reading.
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Marcel Proust was a 19th-century French novelist, literary critic, and essayist. Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist best known for his novel À la recherche du temps perdu, which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century. Read more on Wikipedia →