From friend Cindy, 'a nice quote for you from Emerson's journals':
"Society disgusts and the poet resolves to go into retirement & indulge this great heart & feed his thoughts henceforwards with botany & astronomy. Behold, on the instant, his appetites are exasperated: he wants dinners & concerts, scholars & fine women, theatre & club. And life consists in managing adroitly these antagonisms to intensate each other. Life must have continence & abandonment."
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