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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
(from "Of solitude", Book I, Essay 39)
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Balancing two serious reads right now (Dickens & Montaigne). Think I need some Douglas Adams in my life right about now.
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...what we ordinarily call friends & friendships are nothing but acquaintanceships...in the friendship I speak of, our souls mingle and blend with each other so completely that they efface the seam that joined them...If you press me to tell why I loved him, I feel that this cannot be expressed, except by answering: Because it was he, because it was I.
(from "Of friendship", Book I, Essay 28)
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