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He explained about the lack of eye contact. “I’m not used to seeing people’s faces. There’s too much information there.
In eighteenth-century England, a fad swept the upper class. Several families felt their estate needed a hermit, and advertisements were placed in newspapers for “ornamental hermits”
He mentioned that he didn’t like Jack Kerouac either, but this wasn’t quite true. “I don’t like people who like Jack Kerouac,” he clarified.
a joke is an expression of veiled hostility.”
He wasn’t sure, he said, that he even understood the concept of boredom. It applied only to people who felt they had to be doing something all the time,
social isolation is as damaging as high blood pressure, obesity, or smoking as a risk factor for illness and early death.
“While I was alone in my cave I was my own judge,” she said. “You are your own most severe judge. You must never lie or all is lost. The strongest sentiment I brought out of the cave is that in my life I will never tolerate lying.”
“The more you realize, the more you realize there is nothing to realize,” she said. “The idea that there’s somewhere we have got to get to, and something we have to attain, is our basic delusion.”
