"I had as lief have been myself alone."
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"I myself am best When least in company."
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"On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed."
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"in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude."
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"Cause if you’re happy in your head, then solitude is blessed, and alone is okay."
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"Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them."
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"But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and so loving, for a long while ahead and far on into life, is-solitude, intensified and deepened loneness for him who loves."
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"Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and great each other."
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"There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along."
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"Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious."
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"Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within."
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"The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality."
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"The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face."
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"Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement."
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"The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude."
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"Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy."
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"My doom and my strength is to be solitary."
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"But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation."
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"We never touch but at points."
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"Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen."
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