Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.
Marya Mannes
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The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space free from outside pressure which is the incubator of the spirit.
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To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.
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