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Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space to think... All of us instinctively feel that something inside us is crying out for more spaciousness and stillness to offset the exhilarations of this movement and the fun and diversion of the modern world.

Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space to think... All of us instinctively feel that something inside us is crying out for more spaciousness and stillness to offset the exhilarations of this movement and the fun and diversion of the modern world.

Approximate author period: c. 1957 AD · modern

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Pico Iyer
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Approximate author period: c. 1957 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Pico Iyer: documented birth year 1957; activity date not established. Wikidata Q2955951, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2955951 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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