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“Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: affable, alone, amicable, anchoress, anchorite, anthropocentric, anthropocentrism, antisocial, approachable, ascetic, by-oneself, chummy, cloistered, clubby, communicative, companionable, companionless, convivial, cordial, eremite, extrovert, forthcoming, friendless, friendly, genial, gregarious, hail-fellow-well-met, hermit, hermitic, incommunicado, introvert, isolate, isolation, lone-wolf, lonely, loner, lonesome, marabout, misanthrope, misanthropy, on-one-s-own, open, outgoing, recluse, reclusive, responsive, seclude, secluded, sociable, solitarian, solitary, solitudinarian, troglodyte, unaccompanied, unsociable, warm, withdrawn

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“now it’s computers and more computers
and soon everybody will have one,
3-year-olds will have computers
and everybody will know everything
about everybody else
long before they meet them.
nobody will want to meet anybody
else ever again
and everybody will be
a recluse
like I am now.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Continual Condition: Poems

tags: computers, facebook, friends, hermit, internet, iphone, iphones, recluse, social-networking, social-networks

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“What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad.”
― Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine

tags: antiquity, classical-democracy, democracy, greece, pericles, philosophy, polis, socrates

26 likes

“It don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

tags: conscience, huck-finn, mark-twain, mgg, right-and-wrong

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