How Proust Can Change Your Life — Part 2

How Proust Can Change Your Lifeby Alain de Botton

How To Suffer Successfully

Even Proust had difficulty in getting his friends to read his work.Madame Gaston de Caillavet praisedhim for a passage regarding his first communion but there was in fact no such passage. As you can imagine his friend's indifference injured Proust greatly:

About a book published only a few months earlier, people never speak to me without mistakes proving either that they’ve forgotten it or that they haven’t read it.

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