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The Freedom of Loneliness
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December 23, 2023
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December 23, 2023
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15:21Now PlayingHow can we be happy alone? How can we be happy while we are lonely? These are some of the oldest questions about happiness that humans have posed. Sometimes wisdom on this question is best found not in a straight-up philosopher, but in someone who sampled a life of solitude and wrote down how he found it. That is exactly where Henry David-Thoreau comes in. He spent 2 years in self-imposed isolation near Walden Pond in Massachusetts, and his book Walden is his account of what that was like.
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