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IAmNotAFix on June 20, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Loneliness is stronger when not alone

"It is better to be alone than in bad company."

aubanel on June 20, 2023 | [–]

And yet poet Paul Valéry said "A lonely man is always in bad company". I'd love to understand what he precisely meant by that though.

sourcecodeplz on June 20, 2023 | [–]

I'd rather have shitty friends than no friends really, because shitty people are not shitty all the time.

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