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George MacDonald

"The church grew very lonely about him, and he began to feel like a child whose mother has forsaken it. Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken."

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"The church grew very lonely about him, and he began to feel like a child whose mother has forsaken it. Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken."

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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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"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."

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"Sickness awakens sadness sleeps- Moments of aloneness results into peace."

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"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."

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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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"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than to be crowded on a velvet cushion."

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"As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry."

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