#solitude

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired. ↗

— Zane Grey

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There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while. ↗

— Tom Hanks

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Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion. ↗

— Marilu Henner

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A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. They are sluggish, yet more wayward, and never without a melancholy tinge. Sights and impressions which others brush aside with a glance, a light comment, a smile, occupy him more than their due; they sink silently in, they take on meaning, they become experience, emotion, adventure. 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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Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. ↗

— Thomas Browne

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This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude. ↗

— Michael Chabon

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I owe my solitude to other people. ↗

— Alan Watts

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