"A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure."
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"The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born."
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"The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."
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"Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse."
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"But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings."
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"Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole."
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"But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning."
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"The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness."
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"A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer - to be living a kind of double life."
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"The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God."
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"A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference, nor does he attempt to transform it into a victory. The pain of defeat is bitter to him; he suffers at indifference and becomes desperate with loneliness. After all this has passed, he licks his wounds and begins everything anew. A warrior knows that war is made of many battles: he goes on"
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"Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone."
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"There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while."
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"Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness."
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"While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior."
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"In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many."
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"Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine."
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"So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior. (68)"
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"I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me."
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"When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over."
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