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"Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows."
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"Solitude is a greater treasure than money."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"There is a magic in walking alone, in thinking alone: If there is no one to contact you around, the universe starts contacting you!"
"Sometimes solitude is a real heaven for the tired minds and a marvellous sanctuary for the wounded souls!"
"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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"If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things."
"Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces."
"What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party."
"It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes."
"A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting."
"No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well."
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