Who knows what true loneliness is — not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves… — Joseph Conrad
Who knows what true loneliness is — not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
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