“ We need men who can think and can talk, around us. When we are alone for a long time, we people space with phantoms. ”
Guy de Maupassant, The Horla (1887). copy citation
| Author | Guy de Maupassant |
|---|---|
| Source | The Horla |
| Topic | time space |
| Date | 1887 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Horla |
Context
“Yesterday after doing some business and paying some visits, which instilled fresh and invigorating mental air into me, I wound up my evening at the Théâtre Français. A drama by Alexander Dumas the Younger was being acted, and his brilliant and powerful play completed my cure. Certainly solitude is dangerous for active minds. We need men who can think and can talk, around us. When we are alone for a long time, we people space with phantoms.
I returned along the boulevards to my hotel in excellent spirits. Amid the jostling of the crowd I thought, not without irony, of my terrors and surmises of the previous week, because I believed, yes, I believed, that an invisible being lived beneath my roof.”
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