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"No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness."
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"An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness."

"He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime."

"The lonely become either thoughtful or empty."

"People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else."
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"A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all."

"The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means."

"Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air."

"Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it."

"Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses."
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