#solitude

…my Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have. ↗

— A.S. Byatt

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I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

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Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god. ↗

— Aristotle

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To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

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I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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What does he say?' he asked. 'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.' 'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it. ↗

— Liv Tyler

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A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. ↗

— Paul Tillich

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When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. ↗

— William Wordsworth

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