“And then there was his sociability. It was a passion, a vice; he could not live without the company of his fellow beings. It was agony for him to be alone. He hunted company ferociously, as wild beasts pursue their prey. But the odd thing was that he never seemed to crave for friendship or intimacy. So far as I know, he had no friends, in the ordinary accepted sense of the term. He desired only acquaintances and auditors; and acquaintances and auditors were all that he had.”
Aldous Huxley, “Two or Three Graces”
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