Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

Max Beerbohm

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Topic

Hospitality

Author

Max Beerbohm

Source

Hosts and Guests And Even Now

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

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Beerbohm, Max. "Hosts and Guests." And Even Now. William Heinemann, 1920. Originally published in Harper's Magazine, 1919.

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The bonds between ourselves and another person exist only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

Marcel Proust

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Existential solitude Connecting with others Isolation The human condition

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Marcel Proust
Source
The Fugitive In Search of Lost Time
Medium
Novel
Genre
Modernist literature
Language
French
Time
1922 1920s 20th century
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Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. Albertine disparue [Albertine Gone]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

Current Citation

Proust, Marcel. The Fugitive, edited and translated by Peter Collier. Penguin Classics, 2021.

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Are you lost daddy I asked tenderly.
Shut up he explained.

Ring Lardner

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Parents and children

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Ring Lardner
Language
English
Time
1920 1920s 20th century
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Citation

Lardner, Ring. "The Young Immigrunts." Ring Lardner: Selected Stories. Penguin Classics, 1997. Originally published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1920, ch. 10.