"Isolation must precede true society."
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"There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally."
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"Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation."
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"I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much."
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"Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule."
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"When one chooses to be a writer, psychologically there's a reason for that because you like the isolation and you like to be by yourself and you are by nature timid."
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"No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can't even fathom it. I imagine only chaos and isolation."
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"But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation."
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"One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person."
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"Liberty is the possibility of isolation."
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"Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance."
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"An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight."
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