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“I remember waking in a field. The sun is above me. It has a face but not like mine. Its eyes are closed. I'm wearing a gown made of the hair we'd never grown. The gown stretches behind me as I walk, winding and clinging against the landscape as if to wed me to it. It pulls the roots of my scalp so wide and far apart you can see straight into my brain, the mounds and nubs there, holes and powder. Beneath the dirt, the blood is dry. Enmassed dreams of the dead hold up the lattice of the unnamed landscape. Where I'd already walked I knew I could not walk back. The light of day is near and thin with no one waiting.”

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Book:Three Hundred Million
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“Лёвин помнил, как в то время, когда Николай был в периоде набожности, постов, монахов, служб церковных, когда он искал в религии помощи, узды на свою страстную натуру, никто не только не поддержал его, но все, и он сам, смеялись над ним. Его дразнили, звали его Ноем, монахом; а когда его прорвало, никто не помог ему, а все с ужасом и омерзением отвернулись.”

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Author:Leo Tolstoy
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“I think about what makes us lonely on a recent subway ride from Brooklyn to Manhattan. As the train hurtles over the Manhattan Bridge, the subway car is silent, save for the muffled beats of a pop song. A woman up front is reading a book, and a few commuters are dozing. The rest of us are glued to our devices: heads bent, earbuds in, fingers scrolling. The trains sputters and then stops completely mid-bridge; plugged into our own curated digital landscapes, no one looks up. What was once a period of contemplation, boredom, small talk, confrontations, maybe even some light flirting, has been replaced by screens. In addition to filling the blank spaces in our day, our phones double as a crutch to “lean on when we are socially anxious or uncomfortable,” says Julia Bainbridge, a freelance writer and editor, who, in 2016, launched The Lonely Hour, a podcast dedicated to exploring the condition. The world is unpredictable, but our screens provide a convenient buffer against the possibility of spontaneous human interaction.”

Loneliness
Author:Laura Entis
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“Technology has sanded away the necessity and inconvenience of interacting with other human beings: We can work from home, order groceries online, stream movies from bed. At the same time, the percentage of Americans who participate in social groups—whether it be social clubs, sports teams, community centers, volunteer organizations, or religious groups—has fallen, Holt-Lunstad says. In a dizzying number of ways, modern life is designed to disengage us from one another.”

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Author:Holt Lunstad
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“Das tiefste Gefühl, das ich kenne, ist das Gefühl nicht dazuzugehören. Es ist das Gefühl, mit dem ich aufgewachsen bin. Es ist kein schönes Gefühl, und ich weiß auch gar nicht, woher es eigentlich kommt. Seit ich denken kann, fühle ich mich, als störte ich. Als wären alle glücklicher ohne mich, und das betrifft nicht nur meine Familie, sondern auch meine Freunde, überhaupt alle, immer. Ich fühle mich, als passe ich nicht richtig dazu. Als wären alle rund und ich eckig oder andersherum. Niemand liebt mich, man kann mich nicht lieben: Das ist meine tiefste Überzeugung, zugleich meine größte Angst, und wenn ich ihr bis ganz hinab folge, führt sie mich zu dem Gefühl, das mir vertraut ist wie kein anderes: Ich bin ganz allein.”

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Book:An Exclusive Love
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