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"The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn't care."
"Solitude is an opportunity to arrest time and convert it into products."
"I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented."
"O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place."
"The only exercise that Tess took at this time was after dark; and it was then, when out in the woods, that she seemed least solitary... She had no fear of the shadows; her sole idea seemed to be to shun mankind-or rather that cold accretion called the world, which, so terrible in the mass, is so unformidable, even pitiable, in its units."
"It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence."
"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
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"The world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and withthem."
"All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love. We're like slugs. Slug-love, I call it."
"My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure."
"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."
"Sometimes all we need to be able to continue aloneare the deadrattling the wallsthat close us in."
"I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again."
"Of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse."
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