"Be good and you will be lonely."
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"I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel."
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"We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers."
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"There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself."
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"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."
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"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."
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"There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall."
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"Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole."
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"Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living."
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"Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations."
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"Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine."
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"Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is."
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"We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders."
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"The surest cure for vanity is loneliness."
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"Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man."
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"The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence."
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"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"
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"Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking."
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"If love is universal, no one can be left out."
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"A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude."
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