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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Helen Keller
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I owe my solitude to other people.

Alan Watts
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I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself. -Peter Hoeg
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

Honore De Balzac
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

Jorge Luis Borges
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In solitude, where we are least alone. -Lord Byron
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Solitude is the place of purification.

Martin Buber
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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude. -Alfred Polgar
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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion. It is easy in solitude to live after our own. But the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

Rainer Maria Rilke
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The whole value of solitude depends upon one's self; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it. -John Lubbock
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

Gertrude Stein
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There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

Sidonie Gabrielle
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. -Octavio Paz
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True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.

Edward Hoagland
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A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

Seneca
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. -Sir Francis Bacon
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The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Sir Francis Bacon
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No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

C. S. Lewis
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One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.

Henry David Thoreau
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But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.

Joseph Conrad
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity. -Abraham Cowley
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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Thomas Mann
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You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.

Austin O'Malley
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In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages. -William Mathews
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Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Thomas Browne, Sr.
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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Harold Bloom
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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. -Aphra Behn
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