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Home Alone No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Polly, June 15, 2013

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Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

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There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

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