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"I like the idea of living in a city - any city, especially a strange one - like the thought of traffic and crowds, of working in a bookstore, waiting tables in a coffee shop, who knew what kind of odd, solitary life I might slip into? Meals alone, waling the dogs in the evenings; and nobody knowing who I was."
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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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"I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for."
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"So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter."
Environment


"What's worth living for? what's worth dying for? what's completely foolish to pursue?"
Meaning


"The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences."
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"A different and much deeper sort of beauty altogether. The thing and yet not the thing."
Mystery


"Why does that obstinate little voice in our heads torment us so?' he said, looking round the table. 'Could it be because it reminds us that we are alive, of our mortality, of our individual souls - which, after all, we are too afraid to surrender but yet make us feel more miserable than any other thing? But isn't it also pain that often makes us most aware of self?"
Mortality


"I like the idea of living in a city - any city, especially a strange one - like the thought of traffic and crowds, of working in a bookstore, waiting tables in a coffee shop, who knew what kind of odd, solitary life I might slip into? Meals alone, waling the dogs in the evenings; and nobody knowing who I was."
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"I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence."
Irony


"Richard Papen: As it happened, I knew Gartrell. He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost entirely of obscenities, gutteral verbs, and the world "postmodernist."
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"Is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?"
Courage
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