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“But there were moments - when he saw groups of friends sitting in neat, symmetrical rows on pub benches, or couples holding hands in the street, where he felt a wave of embarrassment that he [...] hadn't exchanged so much as a cup of tea with an acquaintance or a flirtatious smile with someone on a train in years - that he scared himself with how intense the feeling of longing was. Because maybe, actually, he did want to find people to be close to, to make friends and perhaps even find someone to spend the rest of his life with.”

“To be amongst all and yet to stare blankly at the consuming loneliness, to shake hands and yet to feel the penetrating emptiness, to be surrounded by all and yet to feel forsaken--this is the engulfing forlornness as millions suffer from the unseen depression, society's invisible ailment. The world needs a return back to this earth, to feel it, to touch it and to tremble with the joy of it in the raw, real and most powerful way!”