"On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!"
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"My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes."
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"I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude - and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core."
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"How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence."
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"Solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people... precludes awareness of one's self so that after a while the self no longer knows that it exists."
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"Tears do not burn except in solitude."
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"...loneliness is not a function of solitude."
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"Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small."
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"She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me."
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"Society is no comfort, to one not sociable."
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"The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long for in the silence of our inner solitude."
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"Isolation must precede true society."
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"I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions."
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"I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face."
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"I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul."
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"Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved person."
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"It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence."
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"Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones."
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"I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem."
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"The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In death, as on the chimney sweep’s Saturday night, the soot gets washed from his body."
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