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"The more we speak of solitude, the clearer it becomes that at the bottom it is not something one can choose to take or leave. We are lonely. One can deceive oneself about it and act as if it were not so. That is all. But it is so much better to see that we are so, indeed even to presuppose it. It will make us dizzy, of course; because all the focal points on which our eyes were used to resting are taken away from us, there is nothing near us anymore, and everything distant is infinitely distant."
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"Solitude is a greater treasure than money."
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"In solitude, you listen to the sacred voice."
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"Everything precious comes out of solitude."
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"You can really never give birth to anything in this world without solitude. Everything precious comes out of solitude."
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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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"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."
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"Solitude always gives birth to something."
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"You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons."
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"I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself."
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"There is only one solitude, and it is great and is not easy to bear, and to almost everyone there come hours when they would gladly exchange it for some kind of communion, however banal and cheap, for the appearance of some slight harmony with the most easily available, with the most undeserving. But perhaps those are just the hours when solitude grows; for its growing is painful like the growing of boys and sad like the beginning of Spring."
Isolation
"Turn your attentions to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes by, far in the distance."
Reflection
"And the heart has become so tired, and the longing so vast."
Emotion
"And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and secretly replaced it with another world while everyone slept. You felt in such complete harmony with God, when every morning you asked him for a new earth, so that all the ones he had made could have their turn. You thought it would be shabby to save them and repair them; you used them up and held out your hands, again and again, for more world. For your love was equal to everything."
Love
"There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course."
Man
"Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
Life
"Read the lines as if they were unknown to you, and you will feel in your inmost self how very much they are yours."
Wisdom
"What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love."
Sacrifice
"For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible."
Beauty
"Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come to completion in itself, in the dark, in the unsayable, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one's own understanding, and with deep humility and patience to wait for the hour when a new clarity is born: this alone is what it means to live as an artist: in understanding as in creating."
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