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Introspection is the precondition of an intellectual life, and solitude is the precondition of introspection
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- William Deresiewicz American essayist and literary critic
The ability to engage in introspection, I put it to my students that day, is the essential precondition for living an intellectual life, and the essential precondition for introspection is solitude.
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↗The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (The American Scholar)theamericanscholar.org
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