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"Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book."
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"One of the things you could do with your time is to convert it into a treasure and that treasure is called solitude."
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"I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative."
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"A: But why this solitude? - B: I am not at odds with anyone. But when I am alone I seem to see my friends in a clearer and fairer light than when I am with them; and when I loved and appreciated music the most, I lived far from it. It seems I need a distant perspective if I am to think well of things."
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"When you want to be alone, even few people around you will seem like a tremendous crowd to you!"
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"In solitude, you will find the soul."
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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."
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"Without solitude, we are overwhelmed by all the things we hope to do and all of the things we hope to do and all of the things we are planning and praying to do but we never really have the time to actually get down and get these things done."
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"An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him."
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"The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together."
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"I wish to spend a lifetime near a lighthouse where loneliness will be the glimmer of luminous prancing upon ocean waves, rising and falling only for my breathing."
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"Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book."
Solitude
"A man's action is only a picture book of his creed."
Action
"The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome."
Danger
"It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world."
Loss
"Every happiness is a hostage to fortune."
Happiness
"Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written."
Literature
"Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order."
Order
"Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?"
Boredom
"There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance."
Beauty
"Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy."
Strength
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