People
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
— Gertrude Stein
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
A fond, wry observation about restless human nature: alone, people crave company, and in company, they crave solitude. The quote treats this back-and-forth as simply what people are like, not a flaw to fix, and ends on a shrug.
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