"To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand."

Isolation, Boundaries, Emotion, Self

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"To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand."

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"I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone."

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"Cut off from contact with the outer world, and with the past, the citizen of Oceania is like a man in interstellar space, who has no way of knowing which direction is up and which is down. The rulers of such a state are absolute, as the Pharaohs or the Caesars could not be."

George Orwell, British Author

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"I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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Anais Nin, American Author

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"Here I sit and there you are lying; we have so much to say, and we shall never say it."

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"Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"It's like there are a million screams caught inside of my chest but I have to keep them all in because what's the point of screaming if you'll never be heard and no one will ever hear me in here. No one will ever hear me again."

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"I can't go outside, I know to much to be out there and I had never liked people."

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"We were together. I forget the rest."

Love

"Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul."

Philosophy

"Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much? Have you practis'd so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,) You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self."

Literature

"I loafe and invite my soul I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass."

Nature

"My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth.I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands,I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them."

Spiritual

"And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero."

Man

"WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleas'd with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over; I stand apart to hear-it never tires me. To you, your name also; Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?"

Identity

"The future is no more uncertain than the present."

Future

"Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?"

Desire

"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

God