#solitude

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. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

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

— Michael Chabon

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Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

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I owe my solitude to other people. ↗

— Alan Watts

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The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

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People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

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During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

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