Who could endure solitude? to live among the enormity of nature where there is no one else? Anyone who, having felt this solitude even as a remote image for a day, believes himself truly capable of it seems slightly mad — if not fully mad. Men are not meant to be alone. Those who always wish for it have no sense of what it would imply. To live only by one’s own abilities — this we are not ready for in modern civilization any longer.