"In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many."
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"'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd."
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"Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude."
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"Nothing is more dangerous than solitude."
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"Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone."
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"In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven."
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"When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken."
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"O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings"
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"I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy."
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"The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression."
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"Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience."
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"We cannot confront solitude without moral resources."
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"Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at moments back to this. The busy have no time for tears."
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"Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company."
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"Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude."
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"Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone."
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"A multitude of people and yet solitude."
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"What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves."
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"An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror."
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"See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness."
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