"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."
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"The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion."
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"One can acquire everything in solitude except character."
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"The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction."
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"I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company."
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"Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price."
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"In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls."
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"Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid."
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"He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything."
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"Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude."
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"Every so often a disappearance is in order. A vanishing. A checking out. An indeterminate period of unavailability. Each person, each sane person, maintains a refuge, or series of refuges, for this purpose. A place, or places, where they can, figuratively if not literally, suspend their membership in the human race."
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"If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave."
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"If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere."
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"Solitude is independence."
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"She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart."
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"I exist in the depths of solitude pondering my true goal Trying 2 find peace of mind and still preserve my soul"
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"A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company."
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"Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self."
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"Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude."
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"Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things."
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