“I have often said,” writes Blaise Pascal in the Pensées—the crowning achievement of his life’s work, left unfinished at his death in 1662—“that the sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.” Even five minutes spent in solitude, it seems, is more than flesh and blood can bear. Might that account for the high rates of crime we’ve been seeing in…
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