“There is no final, satisfying way to balance our need to be known with our need to be alone. The balance is always uncertain and provisional; it’s always a matter of dissatisfaction, give-and-take, and sacrifice…It’s up to each of us to balance the risks and rewards—to trade, in right proportion, loneliness for freedom, explicability for mystery, and the knowable for the unknown within ourselves.” — Joshua Rothman, “Virginia Woolf’s Idea of Privacy”
Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 01:31:07 +0000
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