Quote#Solitude
Never does the soul feel so far from human life as when a man finds…
Quote byElizabeth Drew Stoddard · 1823–1902
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Two Men: A Novel (1865), Ch. XVI, p. 134..
English (original)
Never does the soul feel so far from human life as when a man finds himself alone in the vistas of the moon, either in the streets of a sleeping city, the avenues of the woods, or by the border of the sea. Earth, swayed perhaps by her powerful satellite, withdraws her sympathy from him and he wanders in a white void, wondering if he was born to be thus annulled.
— Elizabeth Drew Stoddard
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