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The great omission in American life is solitude not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

Marya Mannes

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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
Author
Journalist
American
Zone
Free
Midst
Spirit
Crowds
Incubator
Great
Loneliness
Omission
Time
Solitude
Thrives
Life
Pressure
Pressures
Outside
Alienation
Space
Thrive

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