Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness. The Third Wave
“Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit / Of This and That endeavour and dispute / Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape / Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.” Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night. Jacob's Room
If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring. Les Misérables
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