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> [At some point just about all of us experience loneliness. In a sense, it is what it means to be a sentient animal, to have an experience of separation from others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/at-some-point-just-about-all-of-us-experience-loneliness-in-a-sense/)

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## More by Thomas L. Dumm

> [None of us is perfect, but the point of our writing is to try to become better, to learn something that we may not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/none-of-us-is-perfect-but-the-point-of-our-writing-is-to-try-to/)

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> [There are degrees of loneliness, ways in which the experience of loneliness deepens, becomes something like what we might call a way of life.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/there-are-degrees-of-loneliness-ways-in-which-the-experience-of/)

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> [Of course, each of us has to write our own book, live our own life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/of-course-each-of-us-has-to-write-our-own-book-live-our-own-life/)

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> [In one of my favorite anecdotes about Foucault, someone asks him why he writes books. He responds by saying something like "When I begin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/in-one-of-my-favorite-anecdotes-about-foucault-someone-asks-him-why/)

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> [Usually, we think that "good" loneliness is what we call "solitude," the choice of some alone-time. But I want to press on with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/usually-we-think-that-good-loneliness-is-what-we-call-solitude-the/)

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> [ I worry that we don't currently have a democracy in the United States. Instead we have what \[political philosopher\] Sheldon Wolin has recently labeled… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/i-worry-that-we-don-t-currently-have-a-democracy-in-the-united-states/)

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> [It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/it-is-an-admonition-to-myself-when-i-am-reading-other-people-s-books/)

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> [As lovers of truth, we want to be close to it. Sometimes - evil thought, evil temptation - we want to be close to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/as-lovers-of-truth-we-want-to-be-close-to-it-sometimes-evil-thought/)

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> [One of the reasons I always come back to representations of loneliness in plays, films, and literature is that they give us specific examples…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/one-of-the-reasons-i-always-come-back-to-representations-of/)

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> [I look back on some of my early reviews of others, and realize to my chagrin that I've been as guilty as anybody else…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/i-look-back-on-some-of-my-early-reviews-of-others-and-realize-to-my/)

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> [At some point just about all of us experience loneliness. In a sense, it is what it means to be a sentient animal, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/at-some-point-just-about-all-of-us-experience-loneliness-in-a-sense/)

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> [We can never leave loneliness behind completely - it is part of what forms us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/we-can-never-leave-loneliness-behind-completely-it-is-part-of-what/)

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> [I'm pretty sure my dog, Pip, gets lonely when there is no one to be with him. But we humans can end up with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/i-m-pretty-sure-my-dog-pip-gets-lonely-when-there-is-no-one-to-be/)

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> [Worldwide, the twentieth century has seen the rise of extraordinary concentrations of economic and political power - evoking the people as the source of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/worldwide-the-twentieth-century-has-seen-the-rise-of-extraordinary/)

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