Loneliness is like the common cold, a contagious disease which we catch in public places and suffer in privacy. We turn from a man’s loneliness as instinctively as we turn from his sneeze, but his germ overtakes us easily. We carry it home and doctor it with old remedies, all patently useless: there is no known cure for loneliness. The best we can do is to give it to someone else. Just as soon as we observe our symptoms in another, our own become less severe. -Douglas Woolf, from Hypocritic Days
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:55:56 +0000
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