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If he seeks to avoid the cares of life and the burdens of reponsibility by retreating into rural solitude, cutting ties and curbing ambition, he is entitled to do so. But he will be much better entitled if his desertion of the business and tumult of the city is only for a time, and only to learn what the Overself alone can teach.

-- Notebooks Category 3: Relax and Retreat > Chapter 1 : Take Intermittent Pauses > # 48