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When he first encounters this unlooked-for phenomenon, he will be shocked and withdraw into aloofness like a tortoise into its shell and perhaps take refuge in a hard-held cynicism. But although it forges an armour around a sensitive man and provides him with a protection, it offers no adequate solution.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 14 : The Sensitive Mind > # 53