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"I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already."
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"Loneliness will give you the greatest chance of ever having a beautiful relationship with another person."

"One thing I've learned is that in the midst of your darkest moments of tribulation, there is no such thing as mass friends."

"He was lonely because he could imagine himself as anything but himself and as anywhere but where he was. His competitiveness and self-centeredness cut him off from any thought of shared life. He wanted to have more because he thought that having more would make him able to live more, and he was lonely because he never thought of the sources, the places, where he was going to get what he wanted to have, or of what his having it might cost others. It was loneliness that sometimes even he felt; you could see it. A self-praiser has got to accept a big loneliness in order to accept a little credit."

"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."

"You are alone, I am alone; we don't get together why we complain so much."

"We all are individual and lonely, like stars which appear so close but millions of miles apart."

"Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship."

"We both were there, but alone. "Bye," she said and left; I was alone; again, one more time."

"I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky."

"Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life."
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