Proust on common sense and common kindness

Proust on miserliness

 

There were, of course, even at the Grand-Hôtel, guests who could enjoy living quite cheaply without forfeiting the good opinion of the manager, as long as he was sure their penny-pinching was motivated not by poverty but by miserliness. For miserliness, being a vice and therefore at home in any social class, is in no way incompatible with prestige.

 

In The Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, tr. James Grieve (Allen Lane 2003) p. 242.

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Things we read: Knausgaard again

No, he isn’t Proust, and no, we don’t think he should win the Nobel Prize.  But this is pretty good, don’t you think?

The empty frame of tomorrow – Proust on procrastination

It’s cheering to know Proust had this problem too….

Little patch of yellow wall