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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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"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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"I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative."
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"Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn't know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was."
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"The time of solitude is actually an opportunity to make time work for you."
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"Solitude is a greater treasure than money."
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"In solitude, you listen to the sacred voice."
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"Alone! yesterday, today and forever."
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"I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and must bear our own in solitude. For my part, I have found that walking soothes it; and that, given luck, sometimes we find one to walk besides us ... at least for a little way."
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"In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true."
Creativity
"It has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don't know the artistic side of a painting."
Creativity
"So what do you want? Does what happens inside show on the outside? There is such a great fire in one's soul, and yet nobody ever comes to warm themselves there, and passersby see nothing but a little smoke coming from the top of the chimney, and go on their way."
Soul
"Where friendship blooms, life is reborn."
Friendship
"I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made.."
Reflection
"Well, right now it seems that things are going very badly for me, have been doing so for some considerable time, and may continue to do so well into the future. But it is possible that everything will get better after it has all seemed to go wrong. I am not counting on it, it may never happen, but if there should be a change for the better I should regard that as a gain, I should rejoice, I should say, at last! So there was something after all!"
Hope
"A good picture is equivalent to a good deed."
Creativity
"In would rather die of passion than of boredom."
Passion
"Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes."
Patience
"A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke."
Passion
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