#solitude

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

— Zane Grey

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Solitude begets whimsies. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

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In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

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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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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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Solitude is the place of purification. ↗

— Martin Buber

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Reading takes solitude and it takes focus. ↗