“Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.”

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American novelist and essayist 1943

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“Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.”

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