"National isolation breeds national neurosis."

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"I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"She walked in somber seclusion, unable to connect with women despite her heart's desire to do so while being shadowed by men who hungered for the indefinable; and while she yearned for friendship, they yearned for something more and what she had been in search of remained removed from her, and the more she erected barriers, the more they crossed them and each time they did, she turned from them and hid."

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"Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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"If you stay here, you become lost. And no one can find you. I like lost."

Ally Condie, American Author

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"All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

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"Living in the shadows is cold... know this before you go living there."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"For what can the damned really have to say to the damned?"

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"Up here on the Ice each of us is singular, isolate, I as cut off from those like me, from my society, and its rules, as he from his."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"The people who had turned their heads turned them again as the service proceeded; and at last observing her they whispered to each other. She knew what their whispers were about, grew sick at heart, and felt that she could come to church no more."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

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"Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper."

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"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."

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"A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office."

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"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be."

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"I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known."

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"Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table."

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"I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university."

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"Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism."

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"There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness."

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