"And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it."
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"What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude."
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"The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain."
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"Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars."
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"Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend"
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"Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad."
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"There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude."
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"It is right that you have to have a tolerance for solitude. But when that solitude bears fruit, you can abandon it. You can be in the company of others."
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"A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you."
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"He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude."
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"Solitude is a catalyst for innovation"
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"Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me."
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"What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?"
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"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships."
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"He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers."
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"True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by."
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"In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone."
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"Solitude is the furnace of transformation."
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"If you meet God in solitude, you discover the God you meet is the God who embraces all people."
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"In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united."
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