#solitude

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

— Allen Ginsberg

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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not. ↗

— Anna Neagle

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Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. ↗

— Octavio Paz

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If I were alone with my clone, and we were enjoying each others' solitude, I'd have finally have met a man with whom I could hold a conversation consisting entirely of the repetitive response, "Yes, I agree! ↗

— Jarod Kintz

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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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