“Never did I think so much, exist so vividly, and experience so much, never have I been so much myself - if I may use that expression-as in the journeys I have taken alone… The sight of the countryside, the succession of pleasant views, the open air… the absence of everything that makes me feel my dependence, of everything that recalls me to my situation - all these serve to free my spirit, to lend a greater boldness to my thinking, so that I can combine them, select them, and make them mine as I will, without fear or restraint.”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Who am I when I am alone?... i have forgotten. This makes me want to remeber.
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