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"In solitude, where we are least alone."
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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."

"Solitude with God is a place for pregnancy."

"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."

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

"A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it."
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"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life."

"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."

"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep."

"I have not loved the world nor the world me I have not flatter'd its rank breath nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee."

"For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour."

"A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends."

"Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love."
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