"One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude."

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"One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude."

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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."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Solitude, Time, Treasure, Value

"I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative."

David Levithan, American Author

Solitude, Loneliness, Acceptance, Desire, Alone

"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."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Solitude, Reflection, Perspective, Clarity

"When you want to be alone, even few people around you will seem like a tremendous crowd to you!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Solitude, Truth, Regret, Wisdom, Power

"In solitude, you will find the soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Solitude, Soul, Discovery, Peace

"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."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Solitude, Conversion, Friends, Focus

"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."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Solitude, Overwhelmed, Planning, Focus

"An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Solitude, Friends, Loneliness, Irony, Goodness

"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."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Solitude, Connection, Alone, Peace

"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."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Solitude, Peace, Nature, Loneliness

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"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."

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"You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget."

Memory, Forget

"The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help."

Time, Help, Poets

"One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude."

Solitude, America

"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."

People, English, Living, Now

"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed."

Anger, Nothing

"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

Books, End, Nothing, Study

"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."

Poetry,

"I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends."

Friendship, Trust, Friends, Judgment

"Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence."

Love,