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"There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect."
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"It was a different sense of isolation from what he normally felt in Japan. And not such a bad feeling, he decided. Being alone in two senses of the word was maybe like a double negation of isolation. In other words, it made perfect sense for him, a foreigner, to feel isolated here. The thought calmed him. He was in exactly the right place."
"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
"In solitude, struggles occur that no one else knows about. Inner battles are fought here that seldom become fodder for sermons or illustrations for books. God, who probes our deepest thoughts during protracted segments of solitude, opens our eyes to things that need attention. It is here He makes us aware of those things we try to hide from others."
"To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all."
"Loneliness chosen is always preferable to loneliness imposed."
"The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all."
"Thinking is a way of condemning oneself to solitude."
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"Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probable: our happiness is never in our own hands; we inherit our constitution; we stand buffet among friends and enemies; we may be so built as to feel a sneer or an aspersion with unusual keenness and so circumstanced as to be unusually exposed to them; we may have nerves very sensitive to pain, and be afflicted with a disease very painful. Virtue will not help us, and it is not meant to help us."
"To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall."
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