#solitude

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude. ↗

— Andy Serkis

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There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. ↗

— Maggie Smith

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Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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He who lives in solitude may make his own laws. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

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Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

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Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression. ↗

— Henry Home

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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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