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The person who tries to live alonewill not succeed as a human being.
His heart withers if it does not answer another heart.
His mind shrinks away if he hears only
the echoes of his own thoughts
and finds no other inspiration.
- Pearl S. Buck
Monday, April 20, 2009
Isolation
The person who tries to live alonewill not succeed as a human being.
His heart withers if it does not answer another heart.
His mind shrinks away if he hears only
the echoes of his own thoughts
and finds no other inspiration.
- Pearl S. Buck
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3 comments:
I totally disagree with Ms. Pearl on this one...but I love her books.
Maybe my head was in a different space but I didn't take the living alone literally but rather to mean living in emotional isolation without connection to others. I wasn't thinking romantically. Even the part about answering another heart. That could be in the broader sense as in "community" or humankind. Like I said -- maybe it's the headspace I'm in.
maybe so...I wasn't thinking romantically either...just alone as by myself. I am more creative alone than with others...but maybe she did mean totally alone as opposed to sometimes alone.
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