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"In reality, there is no such thing as absolute freedom. The rules of social interaction determine one's freedom."

"All social interactions require some loss of freedom."

"[If a man] postpone[s] any open acknowledgement... that his own faith is in direct opposition to the assumptions on which all the conversation of his new friends [are] based... he will be in a false p..."

"Chronically awkward people can feel like everyone else received a secret instruction manual at birth titled "How to be Socially Competent." For the awkward person, this dreamy manual would provide eas..."

"Under the spell of alcohol your differences recede."

"The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have acce..."