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"We learn about life by exploring the texture and depth of space that composes our private inner world. In solitude we revisit our wounded feelings, sins, doubts, and deepest despair, replay poignant memories of loved ones, project what we are becoming, and ascertain the purpose of our being."

"But how are you going to get out, into the world of other people? That is your problem now, if I may hazard a guess - to find the right relationship, now that you know yourself, between the self that you know and the world outside. It is a difficult problem. No living poet has, I think, altogether solved it."

"When alone, concentrate on the fruits of the solitude, not on the poisons of it!"

"A time of solitude will always produce some fruits."

"Solitude with God is a place for pregnancy."

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than to be crowded on a velvet cushion."
Explore more quotes by Lord Byron

"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."

"For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear."

"I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all."

"Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love."

"What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now."

"To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all."

"Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it."
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