You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.
Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.
The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In death, as on the chimney sweep’s Saturday night, the soot gets washed from his body.
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