“Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense. Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.”

—  Tom Robbins, book Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

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