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"Some friend of yours, perhaps?""Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage visitors."
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"Loneliness will give you the greatest chance of ever having a beautiful relationship with another person."
"Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings...but there's something dead about it, something deserted."
"One thing I've learned is that in the midst of your darkest moments of tribulation, there is no such thing as mass friends."
"He was lonely because he could imagine himself as anything but himself and as anywhere but where he was. His competitiveness and self-centeredness cut him off from any thought of shared life. He wanted to have more because he thought that having more would make him able to live more, and he was lonely because he never thought of the sources, the places, where he was going to get what he wanted to have, or of what his having it might cost others. It was loneliness that sometimes even he felt; you could see it. A self-praiser has got to accept a big loneliness in order to accept a little credit."
"A box sits empty,wanting to hold and protect.Hollow tears it cries."
"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."
"There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one, two is two thousand times one."
"Arrogance and selfishness are not the only reasons behind our loneliness, but most often we used to be alone because of them."
"You are alone, I am alone; we don't get together why we complain so much."
"We all are individual and lonely, like stars which appear so close but millions of miles apart."
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