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"...still, I'm lucky: I feast on solitude, I will never miss the crowd. I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me. I sit in bed and wait for the whole thing to go one way or the other. just like everybody else."
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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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"In solitude, you will find the soul."
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"Sickness awakens sadness sleeps- Moments of aloneness results into peace."
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"When alone, concentrate on the fruits of the solitude, not on the poisons of it!"
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"A time of solitude will always produce some fruits."
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"Solitude with God is a place for pregnancy."
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"In solitude, you listen to the sacred voice."
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"Solitude is independence."
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"Sometimes solitude is a real heaven for the tired minds and a marvellous sanctuary for the wounded souls!"
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"A wounded heart needs aloof."
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"There were no judgments to be made, yet out of necessity one had to select. Beyond good and evil was all right in theory, but to go on living one had to select: some were kinder than others, some were simply more interested in you, and sometimes the outwardly beautiful and inwardly cold were necessary. The kinder ones fucked better, really, and after you were around them a while they seemed beautiful because they were."
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"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose."
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"Never get out of bed before noon."
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"The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn't care."
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"The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd."
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"Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry."
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"Now look, she said, stretched out on the bed, I don't want anything personal, let's just do it, I don't want to get involved, got it? she kicked off her high-heeled shoes, sure, he said, standing there, let's just pretend that we've already done it, there's nothing less involved than that, is there? what the hell do you mean? she asked. I mean, he said, I'd rather drink anyhow. and he poured himself one. it was a lousy night in Vegas and he walked to the window and looked out at the dumb lights. you a fag? she asked, you a god damned fag? no, he said. you don't have to get shitty."
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"When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity."
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"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."
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"And it seems people should not build houses anymore it seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floors under electric lights without shades; it seems there is a lot to forget and a lot not to do and in drugstores, markets, bars, the people are tired, they do not want to move, and I stand there at night and look through this house and the house does not want to be built."
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