The Pleasure of being left alone

The true test of an introvert — not whether one engages in social activity, but whether one is charged or drained by it.

‘Silence drops like falling blossoms over the recovered kingdom from which pretenders have taken their leave.’

‘Dear visitors, what largesse have you given, not only in departing, but in coming, that we might learn to prize your absence, wallow the more exquisitely in the leisure of your not-being.’