Henry David Thoreau: Walden, Economy
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
Reflection
Thoreau is naming the quiet kind of stuck — the life that looks fine and feels hollow. Naming it precisely is the first step out of it. What would 'less quiet, less desperate' look like in one concrete detail?
Source record
- Author
- Henry David Thoreau
- Original source
- Walden, Economy
- Original date
- 1854
- Edition used
- Original English, 1854 — public domain
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