"This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude."

Solitude, Misfortune

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"This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude."

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"It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn't see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Solitude, Night, Alone, Stars, Isolation

"Solitude is a greater treasure than money."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Solitude, Treasure, Value, InnerPeace

"In solitude, you listen to the sacred voice."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Solitude, Listening, Voice, Sacred

"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

"Everything precious comes out of solitude."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Solitude, Precious, Value, Creation

"Periods of silent solitude spent in introspective reflecting are sacred and a source of great strength and comfort. We can learn from listening to the rhythms of nature and from appreciating the eternal hush of the cosmos."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Solitude, Silence, Reflection, Strength

"You can really never give birth to anything in this world without solitude. Everything precious comes out of solitude."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Solitude, Birth, Precious, Creation

"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

"Dantes,rejected by all the world,frequently experienced a desire for solitude, and what solitude is at the same time more complete,more poetical , than that of a bark floating isolated on the sea during the obscurity of the night, in the silence of immensity and under the eye of Heaven? Now this solitude was peopled with this thoughts, the night lighted by his illusions, and the silence animated by his anticipations."

Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist

Solitude, Sea, Night, Heaven

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

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Solitude, Wisdom, Truth, Inspirational, Future

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Music

"If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction."

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"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."

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"Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates."

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"Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity."

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"Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect."

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"Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author."

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"As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before."

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