…this blessing loneliness really loneliness. Real loneliness somethi — Elizabeth Goudge, Scent Water

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…this blessing of loneliness was not really loneliness. Real loneliness was something unendurable. What one wanted when exhausted by the noise and impact of physical bodies was not no people but disembodied people; all those denizens of beloved books who could be taken to one's heart and put away again, in silence, and with no hurt feelings.

Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water

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