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We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. — Tennessee Williams

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We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Tennessee Williams
1957
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Existential solitude
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1957
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Tennessee Williams
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Williams, Tennessee. "Orpheus Descending." Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer. New Directions, 2012, act 2, sc. 1.
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Williams, Tennessee. Orpheus Descending. Directed by Harold Clurman. Performed by Elizabeth Eustis and Jane Rose and Warren Kemmerling. 17 Mar. 1957, Martin Beck Theatre, New York City, New York, USA, act 2, sc. 1.

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