"Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has found his niche in making the sound of solitude a triumphant experience, like Good Will Hunting: The Musical."
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"The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind."
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"It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it."
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"A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness."
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"As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude."
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"Solitude is one of our great superpowers... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of convictions to stand behind those decisions."
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"In Silence there is eloquence."
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"More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude."
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"Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together."
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"One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding."
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"We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must take it upon ourselves, each of us must take it upon himself."
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"I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community."
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"The strong man is strongest when alone."
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"The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude."
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"Aloneness is obviously not isolation, and it is not uniqueness. To be unique is merely to be exceptional in some way, whereas to be completely alone demands extraordinary sensitivity, intelligence, understanding."
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"Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind."
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"There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman"
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"All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber."
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"It is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it."
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"For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone."
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