......................by ourselves

We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; 

but always and in all circumstance we are by ourselves.

The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone.

Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies 

into a single self-transcendence; in vain.

By its very nature every embodied spirit 

is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude.

— Aldous Huxley

in, The Doors of Perception

(1954)