“But now more often the old stale hopeless weariness overcame him: the black sickness which almost no one else, certainly not his nearest dearest friends, could understand at all. The idea of giving up the world, which had given him for a time so much life-energy, appeared now as a sort of fake suicide, a ghastly play-image of his death. This fatal falseness-of-heart was what perhaps Father Damien, on further acquaintance, had now seen in him.”
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“She thought, I am becoming a recluse. Yes, that's it, that is the way.”
“I told you I was going to retire from the world. That's still on. You remember that.”
“She could hide in this small, dull life.”
“It was my first time going out in two hundred years. I walked along slowly.”
“The hermit is the person to whom the judgment of a society matters the most.”
“A loner is a person who has signed up to be banished to a lifetime of solitude.”