"A cult is a religion with no political power."
"The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence."
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Source: The American Mercury, p. 467, The Anatomy of Loneliness, October 1941.
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