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Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.

Sydney J. Harris

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Sydney J. Harris
Age: 69 †
Born: 1917
Born: September 14
Died: 1986
Died: December 8
Journalist
London
England
Sydney Harris
Wrong
Loneliness
Persons
Communication
Person
Darkness
Real
Deep
Room
Rooms
Alone
Suffocating
Possible
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