"Increasingly, people feel as though they must have a reason for taking time alone, a reason not to be available."

Solitude, Time, Freedom, Rest

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"Increasingly, people feel as though they must have a reason for taking time alone, a reason not to be available."

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"When you understand that through the power of conversion in solitude you can become great, so many things you've been wasting your time on will no longer interest you. You will even run away from some friends."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"There is a magic in walking alone, in thinking alone: If there is no one to contact you around, the universe starts contacting you!"

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"I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don't let those tears come because we are not supposed to cry."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company."

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"In solitude, you listen to sacred voice."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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

Charles Bukowski, American Author

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"Solitude, at first is scary. All you have is yourself. After a while its comforting, it knows the real you and cant judge you for it. If you live it long enough it becomes an addiction, like all things, too much of it and you will go insane but not enough of it will also send you there."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

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"Solitude is an opportunity to arrest time and convert it into products."

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"Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"All the same, a seductive voice from afar kept breaking into her conjugal peace: it was the voice of solitude. She closed her eyes and listened to the sound of a hunting horn coming from the depths of distant forests. There were paths in those forests."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

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