You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company. (Caspar David Friedrich)

You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.

Caspar David Friedrich

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