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"I came here to be for all and with all, and what I do today in my solitude will be echoed tomorrow by the multitude. What I say now with one heart will be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts."
"There is much to be said for solitude."
"I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude."
"There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect."
"Apply yourself to solitude. One who is given to solitude knows things as they really are."
"I am only one, But still I am one."
"I love tranquil solitude."
"[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company."
"One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one."
"We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable."
"Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self."
"If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public."
"Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness"
"The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write."
"Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other."
"I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude."
"Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends."
"God is absence. God is the solitude of man."
"Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful."
"In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude."
