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Proust defined friendship… | blogjou

Harold Bloom

How to Read and Why

p. 186
20 Jun 2021

Proust defined friendship...


Proust defined friendship as being “halfway between physical exhaustion and mental boredom,” and said of love that it was “ striking example of how little reality means to us.”