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"Legends are born in solitude. Idiots are born in packs."
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"A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it."

"It was a different sense of isolation from what he normally felt in Japan. And not such a bad feeling, he decided. Being alone in two senses of the word was maybe like a double negation of isolation. In other words, it made perfect sense for him, a foreigner, to feel isolated here. The thought calmed him. He was in exactly the right place."

"I like the idea of living in a city - any city, especially a strange one - like the thought of traffic and crowds, of working in a bookstore, waiting tables in a coffee shop, who knew what kind of odd, solitary life I might slip into? Meals alone, waling the dogs in the evenings; and nobody knowing who I was."

"Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others."

"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."

"He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon."

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than to be crowded on a velvet cushion."

"I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me."

"When you want to be alone, even few people around you will seem like a tremendous crowd to you!"
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"I'd rather listen to what you think of yourself, than what the whole world has to say about you."

"First visualize your goal in your mind. Then have a leap of faith, and let your passion guide you throughout the process."

"Indoctrination is not just demeaning to the human conscience, it is lethal for the flourishing psychology of the hungry, young mind."

"The authorities of this so-called education take pride in their ship shape structure where they manufacture dumb manikins."

"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

"Bring light to the ignorant, but more light to the educated, for the vanity of education makes modern humans more ignorant than the ignorant."

"Modern humans are taught from the childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are embodiment of glory and children of immortal strength. Eventually a society full of bravehearts will rise."

"Filmmaking is not the work of the weak-minded. It may not be rocket science, but it requires ten times more strength of the mind than that."
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