"If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle."
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"Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences"
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"Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society."
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"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."
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"Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserves, and into which he withdraws when he would quit the world for a temporary but authentic solitude"
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"Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life."
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"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."
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"Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of."
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"Seclusion is the price of greatness."
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"He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom."
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"The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost."
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"Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone."
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"Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything."
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"A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return."
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"A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom."
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"In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death."
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"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."
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"The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude."
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"Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity."
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"I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man."
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