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• Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Isolation

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• If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

  Jules Renard

  Lonely, Funny Inspirational, Loneliness

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• One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

  Carl Sandburg

  Single, America, Creative

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time‎" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 448), 1977.

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• If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Lonely

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• Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Love, Being Alone, Men

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 40, 1799.

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• Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

  Robert Browning

  Music, Inspirational Music, Musical

  Robert Browning, William Lyon Phelps (1910). “Robert Browning's complete works”

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• The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Miserable, Solitary

  Samuel Johnson, Abraham Raimbach, Robert Smirke (1819). “Rasselas”, p.85

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• And yet my life seemed to be just one big mass of people. I would never ask some people in for tea to fill up time. I just never would do it. Whenever I seemed to have a quiet hole, I would paint. That was what I would choose to do to fill up the time.

  Myfanwy Pavelic

  People, Tea, Quiet

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• Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Inspirational, Dream, Children

  Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

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• Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Opportunity, Men

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Jun 16, 2013

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• Solitude is the playfield of Satan.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Satan

  1962 Pale Fire,'Commentary'.

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• You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Self Reliance, Politics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.12, Penguin

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• Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects

  Pablo Picasso

  Done, My Own, Suspects

  Pablo Picasso, Pace Gallery (1981). “Picasso: the Avignon paintings”

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• Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Healing, Companion

  Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.432

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• Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Loneliness, Dark, Consolation

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2009). “Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus”, p.127, The Floating Press

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• It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.

  Edgar Degas

  Artist, Wish, Today

  Trewin Copplestone, Edgar Degas (1998). “Edgar Degas”, Gramercy Books

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• 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.

  Claude Monet

  Tasks, Facts, Impossible

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• If you're alone with nothing to do, the quality of your experience really plummets.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Quality, Ifs

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• Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place.

  Susan Cain

  Fashion, Creativity, School

  "The Rise of the New Groupthink". www.nytimes.com. January 13, 2012.

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• I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to need and be with friends and the two things often need to be together... it's a painful conflict that will never be smoothly resolved.

  Morris Graves

  Secret Places, Two, Together

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• A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert... gods look over his shoulder; he creates in their company. What does he care whether or not anybody admires his picture?

  Rudolf Steiner

  Lonely, Real, Artist

  Rudolf Steiner (1964). “The arts and their mission”

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• A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art school with other students. He does not yet know that one day he will have to face himself as a solitary creature enclosed in a space of four walls... and that he will have to be a self-propelled being, with no one at is side.

  Pierre Alechinsky

  Art, Wall, School

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• An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Doors, Ivory Tower, Long

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• Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

  Luis Barragan

  Men, May, Architecture

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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, Needs, Quiet

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

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