Carolina QuotesAnd the eternal paradox of it is that if a man is to know the triumphant labor of creation, he must for long periods resign himself to loneliness, and suffer loneliness to rob him of the health, the confidence, the belief and joy which are essential to creative work.
Thomas Wolfe Carolinian
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- The Anatomy of Loneliness (1941)
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- 1941
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