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• There in seclusion and remote from men The wizard hand lies cold, Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen, And left the tale half told. Ah! who shall lift that wand of magic power, And the lost clew regain? The unfinished window in Aladdin's tower Unfinished must remain!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Lying, Fall, Men

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.774, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Solitude and quiet are highly desirable, but the lack of them is no barrier to writing... The will to work builds all the seclusion that one needs.

  John Braine

  Writing, Solitude, Needs

  John Braine (1975). “Writing a Novel”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Meditation, Solitude

  'Essais' (1580) bk. 1, ch. 39

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• If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of sky by a veil of pleached and intertwining branches, then the loftiness of the forest, the seclusion of the spot and your marvel at the thick unbroken shade in the midst of the open spaces, will prove to you the presence of deity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Space, Views, Sky

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• Each one of us is an individual, just like talk show hosts are different from one another, and newspaper columnists are different from each other. So, former presidents are different from each other, too. Some have gone into relative seclusion. Some have decided to teach.

  Jimmy Carter

  President, Different, Gone

  "The “NIV Lessons from Life Bible” Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. May 21, 2012.

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• My stories were translated and had many reviews before I had an interview with any international or Arab newspaper. If the stories hadn't succeeded, you wouldn't have asked me my position on Arab festivals and I wouldn't have been interested in the festivals anyway, because I would be in seclusion, writing.

  Hassan Blasim

  Writing, Would Be, Stories

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison me is to provide me with seclusion. To send me into exile is to send me away in the Path of Allah. And to kill me is to make me a martyr.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• Regardless of communication between man and man, speech is a necessary condition for the thinking of the individual in solitary seclusion. In appearance, however, language develops only socially, and man understands himself only once he has tested the intelligibility of his words by trial upon others.

  Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

  Communication, Science, Men

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• No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my own faith and my own convictions in the seclusion of my own mind.

  Charley Pride

  Land, Work Out, Perfect

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• There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion.

  William Booth

  Passion, Men, Lazy

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