"Self-communion" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hermit he was ripe for isolation, since life harassed him and he no longer desired anything of it. Again like a monk, he was depressed and in the grip of an obsessing lassitude, seized with the need of self-communion and with a desire to have nothing in common with the profane who were, for him, the utilitarian ...
— Against The Grain • Joris-Karl Huysmans
... This self-communion took place while the still smirking bartender was mixing the decoctions ordered by the cordial and generous Mr. Ketchem. A moment later four glasses clinked together, and Haldane's first acquaintance—the ...
— A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century • E. P. Roe |
