Tao Te Ching

“I have a passionate love for solitude and silence; I can gaze for hours at a fire or the sea without feeling any nee for additional companionship. These have always been my most faithful, most beloved comrades... Direct contact with human beings I had always found irksome.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis 1883 – 1957 CE via P. A. Bien
from Report to Greco