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A searching, intimate meditation on loneliness, love, and the quiet hope that follows despair. This memoir-style work traces a life spent wrestling with diffidence, withdrawal, and the ache for meaning in a restless world.
The author reflects on isolation, the pull of philosophy, and how nature helps heal a frightened heart. He moves from personal sorrows to moments of awakening, feeling the lure of an ideal love and the transformation it can bring to lived experience. The tone stays thoughtful and restraint-focused, inviting readers to consider what endures when social life and fortune fade.
- A candid look at loneliness, self-doubt, and the longing for a guiding, almost sacred, form of love.
- How encounters with nature and beauty recalibrate a tired spirit and broaden the sense of possible joy.
- The shift from cynicism or withdrawal to a kinder, steadier engagement with others and with life.
- Reflections on art, philosophy, friendship, and the quiet duties of living well with diffidence.
Ideal for readers who appreciate quiet, reflective prose about inner life, resilience, and the search for meaning beyond social expectations.
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I think there is no misery so great as that of youth surrounded by all opportunities for wholesome fellowship, endowed with natural faculties for enjoyment, yet repressed and thwarted at every turn by invincible self consciousness and mistrust: surely no lost Opportunities of manhood leave such aching voids as these. In the spring-time of life to feel day by day the slow erosion of the power of joy is of all pains most poignant out of it grow anxieties, premature despairs, incongruous with fresh cheeks and a mind not yet mature. This misery was mine for those four years which to most men are the happiest of a whole career, but to me at every retrospect seem so beset with gloomy shadows that could I live my life again, I would not traverse them once more for all the gold of Ophir.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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"I am naturally bashful; nor hath conversation, age, or travel been able o effront or enharden me." Sir Thomas Browne
In the matter of avowals the diffident never speak if they can write. That is why my apology for a furtive existence is here set down in solitude instead of being told face to face. You have borne so many years with my unresponsive and incomprehensible ways that shame at last constrains me to this poor defence; for I must either justify myself in your sight, or go far away where even your kindness cannot reach me. The first alternative is hard, but the second too grievous for impaired powers of endurance; I must therefore find what expression I may, and tell you how my life has been beshrewed ever since, a boy of twelve, I first incurred the obloquy of being shy.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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