Compared with that of a great artist, the friendliness of a
great nobleman, however charming it may be, seems like
play-acting, like simulation. Saint-Loup sought to please;
Elstir loved to give, to give himself. Everything he possessed,
ideas, works, and rest which he counted for far less, he
to anyone who,uepod him. Butn
r lack of congenial compeny, he lived in an unsociable
isolation which fashionable people call pose and ill-breeding,
the authorities a recalcitrant spirit, his neighbours madness,
his family selfishness and pride. • Marcel Proust
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