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Many people look upon living alone and staying alone as often as possible with something like horror and to be avoided. The philosopher has no such attitude for on the contrary he is able then really and truly to be himself and not what the pressures of others force him to try to appear to be.

-- Notebooks Category 3: Relax and Retreat > Chapter 5 : Solitude > # 132