"Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence."
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"In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings."
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"There is no solitude in nature."
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"He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world."
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"It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone."
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"Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do."
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"Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]"
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"Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the sweetest, ripest hour of the day. And as the hermit's evening hymn goes up from the deep solitude below me, I experience that serene exaltation of sentiment of which music, literature, and religion are but the faint types and symbols."
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"Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance."
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"The thought, the deadly thought of solitude."
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"Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself."
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"I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy."
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"There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen."
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"Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists."
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"At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness."
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"Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe."
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"Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another."
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"A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude."
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"But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes."
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"Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude; and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place; and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever."
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