"If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself."
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"Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge."
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"I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone."
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"Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The happiness which can be achieved along this path is, as we see, the happiness of quietness. Against the dreaded external world one can only defend oneself by some kind of turning away from it, if one intends to solve the task by oneself."
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"Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself."
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"You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it."
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"Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!"
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"What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours-that is what you must be able to attain. To be solitary as you were when you were a child."
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"To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction."
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"The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil."
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"Only the bad man is alone."
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"Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe."
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"The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away."
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"There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem The crystal ball up on the wall hasn't shown me nothing yet I've paid the price of solitude, but at last I'm out of debt"
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"Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker."
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"The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant."
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"Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe."
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"The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love."
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"On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is."
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"Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude."
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