"One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude."
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"If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren't true - whereas prior to questioning, you absolutely believe them. How can you live in joy when you're believing thoughts that bring on sadness, frustration, anger, alienation, and loneliness?"
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"Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself."
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"Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude."
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"As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them."
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"Without great solitude no serious work is possible."
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"You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness ... has to do with angst about death, the recognition that I'm going to die, and die very much alone, and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me."
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"Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings."
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"The way you feel is your point of attraction, and so, the Law of Attraction is most understood when you see yourself as a magnet getting more and more of the way you feel. When you feel lonely, you attract more loneliness. When you feel poor, you attract more poverty. When you feel sick, you attract more sickness. When you feel unhappy, you attract more unhappiness. When you feel healthy and vital and alive and prosperous-you attract more of all of those things."
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"Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone."
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"Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself."
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"Happy children should not try to be artists. You have to be born with a broken heart and a sense of loneliness inside. I never had a happy moment as a child myself."
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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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"There is nothing more painful than the untimely death of someone young and dear to the heart. The harrowing grief surges from a bottomless well of sorrow, drowning the mourner in a torrent of agonizing pain; an exquisite pain that continues to afflict the mourner with heartache and loneliness long after the deceased is buried and gone."
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"I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone."
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"I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude."
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"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside"
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"Please, God. Help me. Take this pain away. Please fill this loneliness with your love. Help me, God, please, help me."
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"I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain."
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"All great and precious things are lonely."
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