“How can you live a truly social life so long as even one exclusiveness still exists between you?” I ask conversely, How can you be truly single so long as even one connection still exists between you? If you are connected, you cannot leave each other; if a “tie” clasps you, you are something only with another, and twelve of you make a dozen, thousands of you a people, millions of you humanity. “Only when you are human can you keep company with each other as men, just as you can understand each other as patriots only when you are patriotic!” All right; then I answer, Only when you are single
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