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We look for a companion in solitude, because we can't stand it for long - and if we have a companion, sooner or later the loneliness will return, because we can't stand the company either. This is the incessant self-contradiction of our "private heart". It works just like breathing: I inhale: I am just myself - I exhale: and I am with the whole... This is how we protect ourselves against suffocation. In other words: this is how we live.

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We look for a companion in solitude, because we can't stand it for long - and if we have a companion, sooner or later the loneliness will return, because we can't stand the company either. This is the incessant self-contradiction of our "private heart". It works just like breathing: I inhale: I am just myself - I exhale: and I am with the whole... This is how we protect ourselves against suffocation. In other words: this is how we live.

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Hungarian

"Magányban társat keresünk, mert nem bírjuk sokáig - s ha társunk van, előbb-utóbb újra a magányt, mert a közösséget sem bírjuk ki. Ez a "magánszívünk" szüntelen önellentmondása. Éppúgy működik, mint a lélegzés: beszívom: csak magam vagyok - kifújom: és az egésszel vagyok... Így védekezünk a fulladás ellen. Más szóval: így élünk."

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