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We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.

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If you tell people enough times that they are unhappy, incomplete, possibly insane and definitely selfish there is bound to come a grey morning when they wake up with the beginning of a nasty cold and wonder if they are lonely rather than simply alone.

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It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other.

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Of course we also live in a world of great beauty, sacrificial and passionate love, tenderness, prosperity, courage and joy. But quite a lot of all that seems to happen regardless of the paradigm and the high thoughts of philosophy. It has always happened. It is precisely because it has always happened that we go on wrestling with these issues in the hope that it can happen more often and for more people.

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Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being.

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Sara Maitland

Sara Maitland

Born: February 27, 1950 (age 75)
Bio: Sara Maitland is a British writer and feminist. An accomplished novelist, she is also known for her short stories. Her work has a magic realist tendency.
Known for:
  1. A Book of Silence (2008)
  2. How to Be Alone (2014)
  3. Gossip from the Forest (2012)
  4. Moss Witch (2013)
  5. A big-enough God (1994)

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