"I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good."
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"Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again."
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"I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love."
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"We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within."
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"We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone."
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"I owe my solitude to other people."
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"A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism."
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"In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude."
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"Solitude is bearable only with God."
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"No one can be happy in eternal solitude."
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"I implore those who love me to love my solitude."
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"... be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust."
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"It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves."
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"We walk alone in the world."
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"Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous."
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"The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it in the shades of privacy."
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"The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout."
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"To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar"
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"It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong."
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"But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing."
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