"Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Novelist

Solitude, Day, Man, Night, Self

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"Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree."

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"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."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"People are always relying on another, i always feel more comfortable alone. Art knows my pain, its not just a desire to paint, a hobby to distract me from living my truth, it is my truth."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

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"At first the solitudecharmed me like a prelude,but so much music wounded me."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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"Being alone will show you who you really are, and if you cannot get-on positively as the sole master of your space in that room alone, then you can absolutely forget about it after you add another person."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Loneliness chosen is always preferable to loneliness imposed."

bell hooks, American Critic

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"The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all."

Deb Caletti, American Author

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"Though solitude, endured too long, Bids youthful joys too soon decay, Makes mirth a stranger to my tongue, And overclouds my noon of day;When kindly thoughts that would have way, Flow back discouraged to my breast;I know there is, though far away, A home where heart and soul may rest.Warm hands are there, that, clasped in mine, The warmer heart will not belie;While mirth, and truth, and friendship shineIn smiling lip and earnest eye.The ice that gathers round my heartMay there be thawed; and sweetly, then, The joys of youth, that now depart, Will come to cheer my soul again."

Anne Bronte, British Novelist

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"I need solitude for my writing, not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

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"I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting."

Susan Sontag, American Author

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"No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him."

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"But silence continued in the layers of the earth, and this density that I could feel at my shoulders continued harmonious, sustained, unaltered through eternity. I lay there pondering my situation, lost in the desert, and in danger, naked between sky and sand and stars, withdrawn by too much silence from the poles of my life."

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"In silence alone does a man's truth bind itself together and strike root."

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"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

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"Men? One never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult."

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