/lit/ - Literature

>>19093919
I've realized that I need philosophy, but philosophy doesn't need me. I like to think that I'm driven by some honorable love of knowledge, and maybe that's true to some extent. But mostly I think I just need to hide from the outside world, from other people, in the safety of musty old books and sterile abstractions. I will likely write nothing of great value to my field, but perhaps that's okay so long as I can keep hiding from the world in my study.

Not for their work primarily, but for their own life (to the extent that those can be separated)