“There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.”

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This points to a kind of isolation that is not physical but inward, when a person becomes trapped inside their own thoughts. It can be read as a warning that loneliness can turn the mind into a sealed place, where help cannot easily enter. It lands in moments of deep depression or withdrawal, when being surrounded by others still does not feel like being reached.

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About Isaac Asimov

American writer and professor of biochemistry

Isaac Asimov was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He became widely known as one of the “Big Three” science fiction writers of his era, alongside Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. He wrote or edited more than 500 books and also produced an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. He is especially associated with hard science fiction, but he also wrote mysteries, fantasy, popular science, and other non-fiction. His work ranges across nine of the ten categories of the Dewey decimal system.

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Second Foundation

1970

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2004

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Foundation's Edge

1991

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