Solitude is obviously dangerous for people with active brains. We need men around us who have ideas and like talking. Leave us alone for any length of time, and we start filling the void with supernatural creatures.
We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of whom we might say: __e is the one._ But you, too, will begin to learn that there is much self-deception behind this longing; if we yielded too much to it, it would lead us from the road.
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We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of whom we might say: __e is the one._ But you, too, will begin to learn that there is much self-deception behind this longing; if we yielded too much to it, it would lead us from the road.
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