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

"It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends."

"All the quiet corners of the world are the great temples for the wise and for the wisdom!"

"The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room."

"Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay."

"A man who is afraid of being alone has never truly met himself."

"Of course, these were only dreams. How could a sensible woman leave a happy marriage? All the same, a seductive voice from afar kept breaking into her conjugal peace: it was the voice of solitude."
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"Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute in their place a feeling of self-confidence and contentment?"


"A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath."


"When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor."
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