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"True solidarity is only possible among the solitary."
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"And now if you'll excuse me, I should like to finish my book, alone, without the presence of a single ringleted girl to disrupt me. If you should come for me at dinner and find me in my chair, gone to the angels at last, you shall know that I died alone, which is to say in a state of utter bliss."

"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."

"Legends are born in solitude. Idiots are born in packs."

"Solitude with God is a place for pregnancy."

"I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself."

"I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company."

"Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows."
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"A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces."

"There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all."

"An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics."

"The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward."
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