"A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it."

Solitude, Discipline, Truth, Focus

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"A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it."

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

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

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"Solitude is independence."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

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"To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion? There is nobody-here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn't care."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

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"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"I love my loneliness as it helps me gather strength to deal with people."

Amit Abraham, Indian Motivational Speaker

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"He sat beside the window in the dark, with his eyes closed. Hearing to the sound of the rain. The whisky in his glass burnt his throat, while the smoke of his cigarette filled his lungs and the fire inside his heart consumed his soul slowly."

Akshay Vasu, Indian Poet

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"Even when I'm alone I have real good company - dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships - and nice, jolly little times with people."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is the great evil of being alone, than what is good and what is evil?"

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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