With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves. (Eric Hoffer)

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

Eric Hoffer

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