"You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious."
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"Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude."
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"The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore."
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"The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness."
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"I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures -- solitude -- and the lights and shades, each a solitude."
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"Marriage is lonelier than solitude."
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"After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you."
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"That's what fame is: solitude."
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"I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me."
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"Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I'm not writing than when I am."
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"Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursue important work in spite of general indifference or hostility, and arrive at opinions which are opposed to prevalent errors."
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"All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude."
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"A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is."
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"I have always loved solitude, a trait which tends to increase with age."
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"Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone."
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"Solitude may rust your words."
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"Reading takes solitude and it takes focus."
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"He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings."
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"Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant."
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"How can they know Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone, And there alone, that have no solitude? So the crowd come they care not what may come. They have loud music, hope every day renewed And heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb."
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