'Societies do not like hermits and do not forgive them for their flight. They disapprove of the solitary figure throwing his "Go on without me" in everyone else's face. To withdraw is to take leave of one's fellows. The hermit denies the vocation of civilization and becomes a living reproach to it. He is a blot on the social contract..."
from The Consolations of the Forest by Sylvain Tesson (February 27)
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