"To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude."

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"To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude."

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"And now if you'll excuse me, I should like to finish my book, alone, without the presence of a single ringleted girl to disrupt me. If you should come for me at dinner and find me in my chair, gone to the angels at last, you shall know that I died alone, which is to say in a state of utter bliss."

Libba Bray, American Author

Solitude, Bliss, Reflection, End

"Solitude with God is a place for pregnancy."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is the great evil of being alone, than what is good and what is evil?"

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Solitude, Evil, Corruption, Wish

"I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"A person realizes inner calm and a state of rapturous peacefulness with nature whenever they stand in solitude and contemplate their existence in an infinite world filled with multiple galaxies."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Solitude, Peace, Nature, Existence

"Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Solitude, Space, Reflection, Mind

"There is a magic in walking alone, in thinking alone: If there is no one to contact you around, the universe starts contacting you!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Solitude, Wisdom, Truth, Inspirational, Future

"He felt the urge to go into the desert, to see if it's silence held the answers to his questions."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Solitude, Silence, Answers, Truth, Journey

"A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it."

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

Solitude, Discipline, Truth, Focus

"I'd prefer to be alone by myself,than alone in a room full of people."

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

Solitude, Alone, People, Life

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