"Isolation must precede true society...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Isolation must precede true society.
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“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.”
“She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind.”
“How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?”