"Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds."

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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along.

— Alan Lightman