"Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world."
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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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"Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion?"
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"The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely."
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"A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ."
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"Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart - a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness."
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"If one's different, one's bound to be lonely."
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"I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone."
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"An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness."
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"We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there even though we go away and there are things in us we can find again only by going back there. We travel to ourselves when we go to a place. We have covered a stretch of our life no matter how brief it may have been but by traveling to ourselves we must confront our own loneliness. And isn’t it so that everything we do is done out of fear of our loneliness? Isn’t that why we renounce all the things we will regret at the end of our life?"
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"No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world."
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"There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives--the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them. ---Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart. Speak tenderly to them. Let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well."
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"Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly."
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"Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man."
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"Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you."
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"A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him. I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen."
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"It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others."
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"I began to paint again, even though I could barely hold the brush, but knowing exactly what I wanted to paint, I began three more large canvases... of large wheat fields under cloudy skies, and it did not take a great deal to express sadness and loneliness... I believe these paintings say what words cannot."
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"And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone."
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"There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem The crystal ball up on the wall hasn't shown me nothing yet I've paid the price of solitude, but at last I'm out of debt"
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