#solitude

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

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Who hears music, feels his solitude Peopled at once. ↗

— Robert Browning

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You need to establish a degree of privacy and solitude in order to write ↗

— Pamela Glass Kelly

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Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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...I got to love solitude - to see the Moon rise and set - I had time to watch it trace the window square across the wall in silent grace... ↗

— John Geddes

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Contemplation means rest, suspension of activity, withdrawal into the mysterious interior solitude in which the soul is absorbed in the immense and fruitful silence of God and learns something of the secret of His perfections less by seeing than by fruitive love. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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Septimus has been working too hard" - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Solitude is a time for "God and God alone." Who knows what can happpen when we focus only on God. In solitude, we sense our deep oneness with God and keep company with Him. Solitude is breaking through my isolation into sharing and being in touch with my Creator. In fact, we can begin to heal our loneliness by transforming it into solitude. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

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I find myself alone in this world and I'm very sad. Everyone has abandoned me and I am truly alone. I have nobody to talk too, to confide in and share my problems with. I have nobody to cheer me up when I'm down, nobody to love or love me back. I have nobody, I am alone in this world. ↗

— Unknown

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The lover`s discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because it wasn`t physical. It was extreme because you felt it while in the company of the person you loved. It was extreme because it was in your head, the most solitary of places. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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