#solitude

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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God is absence. God is the solitude of man. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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In Letters to a Young Poe, Rilke says, 'The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person's solitude.' That's what I want. For other people to love each other without having to partake in them, to possess them, to allow them to be their own inside their solitude, to protect that. I wish people respected each other's aloneness. I wish I could write something very beautiful and erotic without worrying about people wanting to use me to fulfill some fantasy--which I have no control over, and often, has nothing to do with me--inside themselves. ↗

— Kristen Kosmas

#beauty

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude. ↗

— Richard Steele

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One can acquire everything in solitude except character. ↗

— Stendhal

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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

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Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become. ↗

— Leo Szilard

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