How Proust Can Change Your Life — Part 3

How Proust Can Change Your Lifeby Alain de Botton

How To Be A Good Friend

Proust was said to be a famously good listener. As his friendGeorges de Lauris explained it:

He took an interest in you, instead of trying to make you interested in himself.

I’m struck by what a beautiful, kind man Proust was. His friends say the most delicate & affectionate things.

“He never put all his poetry into his books, he puts as much into his life.”

— Walter Berry

Proust was a conversationalist who at times hate...