Not without some hardship, as I've said, I'd conquered the
solitary's way of life; I knew its tests and satisfactions and over time had shaped the scope of my needs
to its limitations, long ago abandoning excitement, intimacy, adventure, and
antagonisms in favor of quiet, steady, predictable contact with nature and
reading and my work. Why invite the unanticipated, why court any more shocks or
surprises than those that aging would be sure to deliver without my prompting?
~Philip Roth, Exit Ghost, 2007
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