Quotes by solitude
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A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
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A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.
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Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
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Eagles that love the high light-penetrated air,
that has no dust and clog of earthborn dust,
must ever dwell in solitude.Source: Chandos -
Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent - unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it - we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.
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Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
Source: Farther Away: Essays (2012) 40 -
For solitude sometimes is best society,
And short retirement urges sweet return.Source: Paradise lost (1667) IX, 249 -
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.
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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.
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