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Not all persons leave the world because they cannot cope with it: some do so for the very opposite reason. They can handle its affairs only too well, they know its human weaknesses and deformities from personal experience and can counter them. But enough is enough: their scale of values is now on a new higher level.

-- Notebooks Category 3: Relax and Retreat > Chapter 5 : Solitude > # 53