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LONELINESS is the doorway to unspoken and yet unspecified desire. In the bodily pain of aloneness is the first step to understanding how far we are from a real friendship, from a proper work or a long-sought love. Loneliness can be a prison, a place from which we look out at a world we cannot inhabit; loneliness can be a bodily ache and a penance, but loneliness fully inhabited also becomes the voice that asks and calls for that great unknown someone or something we want to call our own.
Consolations - Revised edition: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
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