Sunday, July 31, 2011

preconditions

"What happens when busyness and sociability leave no room for solitude? The ability to engage in introspection, I put it to my students that day, is the essential precondition for living an intellectual life, and the essential precondition for introspection is solitude." 
        – William Deresiewicz

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