"I don't like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone."
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"Art starts alone - and convinces society later."
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"Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself."
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"If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight."
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"I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone."
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"Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer."
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"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."
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"All great and precious things are lonely."
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"Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent."
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"The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness."
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"I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone."
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"Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery."
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"I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements."
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"Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely."
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"My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions."
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"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul."
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"When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man."
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"The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant."
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"We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life."
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"A career is born in public - talent in privacy."
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