Tao Te Ching

“The practice of solitude engenders the love of solitude. Like anything important that we at first fear because we know it to be incompatible with lesser things we're attached to—pleasures which cease to please as soon as we have known solitude.”

— Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922 CE via Justin O'Brien, Shan Dao
Apostle of Ordinary Mind
from The Maxims of Marcel Proust