"I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other."
Thoughts on solitude in Thoreau’s Walden
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"The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered."
Selections from Thoreau’s Walden
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