Denis Diderot quote about loneliness from The Nun - There is a way out of a forest, there is none out of a cloister; a man is free in the forest but he is a slave in the cloister. It may well be that greater strength of character is needed for standing up to solitude than to poverty, for if poverty degrades us segregation depraves.
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“ There is a way out of a forest, there is none out of a cloister; a man is free in the forest but he is a slave in the cloister. It may well be that greater strength of character is needed for standing up to solitude than to poverty, for if poverty degrades us segregation depraves. ”
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Author Denis Diderot
Source The Nun
Topic loneliness misery depravity
Date 1796
Language English
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Note Translated by Leonard Tancock
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“On sort d'une forêt, on ne sort plus d'un cloître ; on est libre dans la forêt, on est esclave dans le cloître. Il faut peut-être plus de force d'âme encore pour résister à la solitude qu'à la misère ; la misère avilit, la retraite...” Denis Diderot, La Religieuse

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Denis Diderot quote about loneliness from The Nun - There is a way out of a forest, there is none out of a cloister; a man is free in the forest but he is a slave in the cloister. It may well be that greater strength of character is needed for standing up to solitude than to poverty, for if poverty degrades us segregation depraves.
Denis Diderot quote about loneliness from The Nun - There is a way out of a forest, there is none out of a cloister; a man is free in the forest but he is a slave in the cloister. It may well be that greater strength of character is needed for standing up to solitude than to poverty, for if poverty degrades us segregation depraves.