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"Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay."
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"I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative."

"A: But why this solitude? - B: I am not at odds with anyone. But when I am alone I seem to see my friends in a clearer and fairer light than when I am with them; and when I loved and appreciated music the most, I lived far from it. It seems I need a distant perspective if I am to think well of things."

"When you want to be alone, even few people around you will seem like a tremendous crowd to you!"

"When you understand that through the power of conversion in solitude you can become great, so many things you've been wasting your time on will no longer interest you. You will even run away from some friends."

"Without solitude, we are overwhelmed by all the things we hope to do and all of the things we hope to do and all of the things we are planning and praying to do but we never really have the time to actually get down and get these things done."

"An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him."

"The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together."

"I wish to spend a lifetime near a lighthouse where loneliness will be the glimmer of luminous prancing upon ocean waves, rising and falling only for my breathing."
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"Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain."

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

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it."
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