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• I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.

  Henry Miller

  Heart, Sunshine, Silence

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• The men who have had the most to give to their fellow men are those who have enriched their minds and hearts in solitude. It is a poor education that does not fit a man to be alone with himself.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Men

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• Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

  Jeremy Collier

  Book, Support, Burden

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• Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

  Romain Rolland

  Loneliness, Men, Thinking

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• The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid.

  Brad Mehldau

  Loneliness, Kids, Reflection

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• What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge

  Vivian Gornick

  Pain, Mean, Self

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• As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Peace, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.88, BookBaby

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• There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Discovery, Self, Demand

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• Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Children, Parenting

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Listening, Age, Getting Older

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• Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

  Guru Nanak

  Soul, Bliss, Supreme

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• One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Loneliness, Inspiration, Being Alone

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• I was never less alone than when by myself.

  Edward Gibbon

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Feeling Alone

  Edward Gibbon, John Baker Holroyd (2014). “Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire”, p.83, Cambridge University Press

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• The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Being Alone, Depth, World

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.242, Sahitya Akademi

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• I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Loneliness, Pride, Men

  "Factotum". Book by Charles Bukowski, Ch. 17, 1975.

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• In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.

  William Mathews

  Men, Age, World

  William Mathews (1874). “The Great Conversers, and Other Essays”, p.50

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• There are times when you seek your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone.

  Robert Breault

  Want, Left Alone, Left

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• A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Writing, Men, Bread

  Maurice Blanchot, P. Adams Sitney (1981). “The gaze of Orpheus, and other literary essays”, Barrytown, N.Y. ; Station Hill Press

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• I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspirational, Loneliness

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Solitude'.

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• Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

  Winston Churchill

  Sad, Being Strong, Lonely

  Winston Churchill (2012). “The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you, like a punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. I think great things can come out of solitude, out of going to a place where all is quiet except the beating of your heart.

  Jeanne Marie Laskas

  Being Alone, Heart, Thinking

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• A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence."

  Holbrook Jackson

  Book, Home, Air

  Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.20, University of Illinois Press

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• History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Being Alone, Creativity, People

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• I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Glorious

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1861, Delphi Classics

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• Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

  Abraham Cowley

  Vanity, People, World

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