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"All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone."
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"I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented."
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"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
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"That illusion of a world so shaped that it echoes every groan, of human beings so tied together by common needs and fears that a twitch at one wrist jerks another, where however strange your experience other people have had it too, where however far you travel in your own mind someone has been there before you - - is all an illusion. We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable."
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"This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude."
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"She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness. She thought of them as beautiful creatures, burning and cold; each solitary, and bleak, and silent like her."
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"While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace."
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"And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it."
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"An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him."
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"Some of my pleasantest hours were during the long rain-storms in the spring or fall, which confined me to the house for the afternoon as well as the forenoon, soothed by their ceaseless roar and pelting; when an early twilight ushered in a long evening in which many thoughts had time to take root and unfold themselves. In those driving northeast rains which tried the village houses so, when the maids stood ready with mop and pail in front entries to keep the deluge out, I sat behind my door in my little house, which was all entry, and thoroughly enjoyed its protection."
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"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."
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"We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all."
Fear
"The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things."
Being
"Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do."
Man
"Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty."
Habit
"The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored."
Society
"Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed."
Generosity
"There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience."
Patience
"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman."
Thought
"There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking."
Music
"This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude."
Solitude
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