"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."

Solitude, Loneliness, Poverty, Richness, Self

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"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."

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"And now if you'll excuse me, I should like to finish my book, alone, without the presence of a single ringleted girl to disrupt me. If you should come for me at dinner and find me in my chair, gone to the angels at last, you shall know that I died alone, which is to say in a state of utter bliss."

Libba Bray, American Author

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"It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

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"Legends are born in solitude. Idiots are born in packs."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"Solitude with God is a place for pregnancy."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is the great evil of being alone, than what is good and what is evil?"

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"A wounded heart needs aloof."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself."

Patrick Rothfuss, Australian Athlete

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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, American Author

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"A person realizes inner calm and a state of rapturous peacefulness with nature whenever they stand in solitude and contemplate their existence in an infinite world filled with multiple galaxies."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Solitude, Peace, Nature, Existence

"Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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