I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
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