An idea from Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Yet the same heart keeps its friends at arm’s length. “I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.” The pull between company and solitude is never settled.

From Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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