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November 14, 2006

solitude has seven skins

Then there is the gruesome silence one hears all around one. Solitude has seven skins; nothing penetrates them anymore. One comes to men, one greets friends-more desolation. No eye offers a greeting. At best, a kind of revolt. Such revolts I experienced, very different in degree but from almost everybody who was close to me. It seems nothing offends more deeply than suddenly letting others feel a distance; those noble natures who do not know how to live without reverence are rare.


Nietzsche

Posted by amin at November 14, 2006 11:25 PM