#solitude

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 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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Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not. ↗

— Anna Neagle

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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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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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