"I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available."
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"Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it."
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"Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God."
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"Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation."
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"I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting."
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"It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check."
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"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. His nature - if that word can be used in reference to man, who has ‘invented’ himself by saying ‘no’ to nature - consists in his longing to realize himself in another. Man is nostalgia and a search for communion. Therefore, when he is aware of himself he is aware of his lack of another, that is, of his solitude."
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"but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude."
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"Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude."
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"Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest."
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"La solitude re tablit aussi bien les harmonies du corps que celles de l'a" me. Solitude restores the harmonies of the body no less than those of the soul."
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"When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing."
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"In solitude, be a multitude to thyself."
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"Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter."
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"Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible."
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"Community always calls us back to solitude, and solitude always calls us to community. Community and solitude, both, are essential elements of ministry and witnessing."
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"To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife."
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"Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man."
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"It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live."
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"Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows."
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