““A: So you intend to return to your desert? B: I am not quick moving. I have to wait for myself‚Äî it is always late before the water comes to light out of the well of my self, and I often have to endure thirst for longer than I have patience. That is why I go into solitude‚Äî so as not to drink out of everybody‚Äôs cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think as I really think; after a time it always seems as though they want to banish me from myself and rob me of my soul‚Äî and I grow angry with everybody and fear everybody. I then require the desert, so as to grow good again.””
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