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"I...think it much more supportable to be always alone, than never to be so."
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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."
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"I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative."
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"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."
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"When you want to be alone, even few people around you will seem like a tremendous crowd to you!"
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"In solitude, you will find the soul."
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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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"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."
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"An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him."
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"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."
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"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."
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Explore more quotes by Michel de Montaigne
"It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength."
Strength
"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
Wisdom
"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."
Lie
"Ambition is not a vice of little people."
People
"Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."
Soul
"In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum."
Education
"A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself."
Man
"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself."
Being
"I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older."
Truth
"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
Age
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