“I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said, ‘I want to be let alone!’ There is all the difference.”
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Why Loners Love Being Alone & Why Being Forced to Socialize Makes Many of Us Unhappy
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Being with others only makes us happy if we do it by choice; when choice is taken away, whether we are social butterflies or lone-wolfs, extraverts or introverts, matters little to our happiness; togetherness and aloneness can make us equally unhappy. Let’s choose what we need to be happy.
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