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I have withdrawn from the world and now live in retirement, which is not to say that I live in inactivity. But I find that I can help others with less misunderstanding and with more smoothness by confining my efforts to the inner worlds of being and the outer world of occasional writings than by personal intercourse with them. It is easy for me to be in the world and yet not of it. But it is hard for some critics who do not know me--a knowledge which cannot be gained merely by meeting my body, for I habitually screen myself with ordinariness--to understand how this can be.

-- Notebooks Category 12: Reflections > Chapter 2 : Philosophy and Contemporary Culture > # 67