"We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude."
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"Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves."
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"Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor."
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"Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone."
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"This is to be along; this, this is solitude!"
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"I feel like I veer more away from technology than toward it. I'm a little scared of the direction we're going, to be honest. It feels like a sci-fi novel from the '50s, the way we can control everything and the solitude we each have in our own little bubbles, and yet we feel like we have social interactions. We're moving in a weird direction, at least."
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