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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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"I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative."
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"A: But why this solitude? - B: I am not at odds with anyone. But when I am alone I seem to see my friends in a clearer and fairer light than when I am with them; and when I loved and appreciated music the most, I lived far from it. It seems I need a distant perspective if I am to think well of things."
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"When you want to be alone, even few people around you will seem like a tremendous crowd to you!"
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"In solitude, you will find the soul."
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"When you understand that through the power of conversion in solitude you can become great, so many things you've been wasting your time on will no longer interest you. You will even run away from some friends."
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"Without solitude, we are overwhelmed by all the things we hope to do and all of the things we hope to do and all of the things we are planning and praying to do but we never really have the time to actually get down and get these things done."
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"An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him."
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"The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together."
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"I wish to spend a lifetime near a lighthouse where loneliness will be the glimmer of luminous prancing upon ocean waves, rising and falling only for my breathing."
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"Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe."
Friendship
"Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel."
Ambition
"There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit."
Wisdom
"Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use."
Nature
"True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can."
Wisdom
"Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot."
Knowledge
"Oh let me live my own! and die so too! ("To live and die is all I have to do:") Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please."
Life
"The vanity of human life is like a river constantly passing away and yet constantly coming on."
Life
"Death, only death, can break the lasting chain;And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain."
Death
"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
Wisdom
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