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"The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room."
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"It was a different sense of isolation from what he normally felt in Japan. And not such a bad feeling, he decided. Being alone in two senses of the word was maybe like a double negation of isolation. In other words, it made perfect sense for him, a foreigner, to feel isolated here. The thought calmed him. He was in exactly the right place."
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"People are always relying on another, i always feel more comfortable alone. Art knows my pain, its not just a desire to paint, a hobby to distract me from living my truth, it is my truth."
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"Loneliness chosen is always preferable to loneliness imposed."
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"Though solitude, endured too long, Bids youthful joys too soon decay, Makes mirth a stranger to my tongue, And overclouds my noon of day;When kindly thoughts that would have way, Flow back discouraged to my breast;I know there is, though far away, A home where heart and soul may rest.Warm hands are there, that, clasped in mine, The warmer heart will not belie;While mirth, and truth, and friendship shineIn smiling lip and earnest eye.The ice that gathers round my heartMay there be thawed; and sweetly, then, The joys of youth, that now depart, Will come to cheer my soul again."
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"It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn't see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars."
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"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."
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"This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude."
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"A wounded heart needs aloof."
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"We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all."
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"At bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed."
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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."
Cultural
"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."
Freedom
"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."
Life
"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."
Work
"There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done."
Love
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
Self
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
History
"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
People
"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."
Time
"The proper study of mankind is books."
Books
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