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"True solidarity is only possible among the solitary."
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"To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion? There is nobody-here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone."

"The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn't care."

"I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative."

"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

"I love my loneliness as it helps me gather strength to deal with people."

"He sat beside the window in the dark, with his eyes closed. Hearing to the sound of the rain. The whisky in his glass burnt his throat, while the smoke of his cigarette filled his lungs and the fire inside his heart consumed his soul slowly."
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"To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty."

"A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces."

"It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime."

"We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons."

"The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst."
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