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'The Glory of Being Alone'

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‘The Glory of Being Alone’

Paradoxically, it is when human beings are alone that they can understand the position of another. Solitude lets you meet yourself, lets you accept others just as they are, and makes you realize how little you actually know of them.

— from William Powers, Hamlet’s BlackBerry (Korean title: From Speed to Depth: Why a Philosopher Abandoned His Smartphone and Went to Walden Woods


(from someone, long ago)

This English version was translated by Claude.

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Pleasant Charles — UI/UX researcher at AIT. Keeping notes on design, planning, and slow days here since 2010.

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