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"To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude."
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"It was a different sense of isolation from what he normally felt in Japan. And not such a bad feeling, he decided. Being alone in two senses of the word was maybe like a double negation of isolation. In other words, it made perfect sense for him, a foreigner, to feel isolated here. The thought calmed him. He was in exactly the right place."
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"People are always relying on another, i always feel more comfortable alone. Art knows my pain, its not just a desire to paint, a hobby to distract me from living my truth, it is my truth."
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"Loneliness chosen is always preferable to loneliness imposed."
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"Though solitude, endured too long, Bids youthful joys too soon decay, Makes mirth a stranger to my tongue, And overclouds my noon of day;When kindly thoughts that would have way, Flow back discouraged to my breast;I know there is, though far away, A home where heart and soul may rest.Warm hands are there, that, clasped in mine, The warmer heart will not belie;While mirth, and truth, and friendship shineIn smiling lip and earnest eye.The ice that gathers round my heartMay there be thawed; and sweetly, then, The joys of youth, that now depart, Will come to cheer my soul again."
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"It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn't see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars."
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"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."
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"This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude."
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"A wounded heart needs aloof."
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"We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all."
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"At bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed."
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"To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude."
Solitude
"A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript."
Mind
"Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip."
Destruction
"Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable."
Beauty
"It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it."
Design
"I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him."
Character
"Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body."
Body
"The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life."
Life
"It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do."
Act
"There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy."
Pleasure
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