"As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some."
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"Maybe love won't let you down. All of your failures are training grounds and just as your back's turned, you'll be surprised... as your solitude subsides."
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"Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!"
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"[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness."
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"In solitude, when we are least alone."
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"This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not to know whether she was thinking right or wrong."
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"To seek solitude like a wild animal. That is my only ambition."
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"No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'"
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"What is the impulse that drove to direct? To me, it seems so immense. Just having a rock 'n' roll band, or to go from the solitude of writing and to having to collaborate, is almost schizophrenic."
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"He has learned that God uses solitude to teach us how to live with other people."
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"solitude is not absence of love, but its complement"
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"Without solitude, Love will not stay long by your side."
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"I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude."
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"I love all waste and solitary places."
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"I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The things I seek, not love them less."
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"Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude."
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"O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone."
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"Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone."
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"I, who had had my heart full for hours, took advantage of an early moment of solitude, to cry in it very bitterly. Suddenly a little hairy head thrust itself from behind my pillow into my face, rubbing its ears and nose against me in a responsive agitation, and drying the tears as they came."
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"Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but a sublimity inseperable from the urinary tract: transports bordering upon excretion, a heaven of the glands, sudden sancitity of the orifices. It takes no more than a moment of attention for this intoxication, shaken, to cast you back into the ordures of physiology or a moment of fatigue to recognize that so much ardor produces only a variety of mucous."
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