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Image of the quote is loading... SaveSave For the modern solitary, the quest for silence has vastly broader boundaries than what one's predecessors faced. Solitude is real only when it is relative to the world in which it is lived. It is unreal if attempted in fantasy--as though telephones and fax machines, the Internet and E-mail did not exist. (36) - Quote by Barbara Erakko Taylor

For the modern solitary, the quest for silence has vastly broader boundaries than what one’s predecessors faced. Solitude is real only when it is relative to the world in which it is lived. It is unreal if attempted in fantasy–as though telephones and fax machines, the Internet and E-mail did not exist. (36)

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. . . I am in my hermitage perhaps 70 to 80 percent of the time. I relish and enjoy time with others. I have been called "the sociable hermit." Ironically, lengthy solitude often invokes a verbal avalanche when I find myself with a dear and treasured friend, or at a rare social occasion. . . . Solitaries, I suppose, are not always introverts.
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