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"Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not."
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"Loneliness will give you the greatest chance of ever having a beautiful relationship with another person."
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"Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings...but there's something dead about it, something deserted."
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"He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to companionship with his own thoughts. He had never known before the strength of the want in his heart for the frequent recognition of a nod, a look, a word; or the immense amount of relief that had been poured into it by drops through such small means."
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"We all are individual and lonely, like stars which appear so close but millions of miles apart."
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"I love my loneliness as you do love your virginity."
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"No matter how much I think, no matter how much I try, I can't fill this void of loneliness in my heart."
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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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"One moment you see that you aren't so Original... people leave you... people start ignoring you... people start making excuses."
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"Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through the evening, and wander on the boulevards, up and down, restlessly, while dry leaves are blowing."
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"If it's about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I'm sitting in."
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"But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning."
Enjoyment
"Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do."
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"If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time."
Time
"What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?"
Country
"I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains."
Father
"But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!"
Life
"Everyone needs some time to themselves."
Time
"The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure."
Success
"But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for."
Learning
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