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• Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Solitude, Permit

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• The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.

  Betsy Lerner

  Lonely, Communicate, Labor

  Betsy Lerner (2016). “The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• Being the “best you can be” is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.

  Sue Johnson

  People, Being The Best, Splendid

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• Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.

  Harvey Mackay

  Good Morning, Good Day, Opportunity

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• If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

  Paul Cezanne

  Strong, Block, Artist

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• It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

  Henry Miller

  Ocean, Cutting, Sea

  Henry Miller (1945). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”

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• Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Good Morning, Prayer, Good Day

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Isolation is the worst possible counselor.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Worst, Counselor, Isolationism

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• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• Isolation is a dream killer.

  Barbara Sher

  Life, Dream, Killers

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• At the heart of my politics has always been the value of community, the belief that we are not merely individuals struggling in isolation from each other, but members of a community who depend on each other, who benefit from each other's help, who owe obligations to each other. From that everything stems: solidarity, social justice, equality, freedom.

  Tony Blair

  Struggle, Heart, Responsibility

  Tony Blair's speech to Faithworks, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2005.

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• Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their dimensions against your own firm or shaky sense of who you are.

  Paula Sharp

  Dimensions, Conformity, States

  Paula Sharp (2000). “I Loved You All”, Hyperion

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• The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own surroundings.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Self, Giving, Soul

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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• Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.

  Mason Cooley

  Intelligence, Turns

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• Subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.

  Fritjof Capra

  Science, Understanding, Preparation

  Fritjof Capra (2010). “The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism”, p.69, Shambhala Publications

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• Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.

  Kofi Annan

  Ignorance, Hands, Racism

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• Racists are not born, they are raised. Isolation is the breeding ground for racism. The more you come to know the world around you and people different than you the less likely you will become an extremist. The Church needs to bring the world together.

  Erwin McManus

  Racism, People, Church

  "‘There Is No Neutral Ground Here,’ Erwin McManus Says to The Church". Interview with Alex Murashko, togetherla.net. August 14, 2017.

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• Our "society" is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Desperately insecure, fearing his woman will leave him if she's exposed to other men or to anything remotely resembling life, the male seeks to isolate her from other men and from what little civilization there is, so he moves her out to the suburbs, a collection of self-absorbed couples and their kids. Isolation, further, enables him to try to maintain his pretense of being an individual by being a "rugged individualist", a loner, equating non-co-operation and solitariness with individuality.

  Valerie Solanas

  Couple, Moving, Kids

  "SCUM Manifesto". P. 7, 1967.

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• But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Loneliness, Independence, Privacy

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• The soul that has been enriched by communion with God will not be dismayed by isolation but will welcome solitude. He will seek not the crowd but the closet, and emerging will never walk alone, for he has unseen companionship.

  Frances J Roberts

  Solitude, Soul, Crowds

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• The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.

  Charles Bukowski

  Being Alone, People, Leave Me Alone

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.33, Canongate Books

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• We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers.

  Aristotle

  Thinking, Psychics, Soul

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Soul”, p.33, Aeterna Press

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• Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.

  Paul Bowles

  Fiction, Protect, Isolated

  Paul Bowles, Gena Dagel Caponi (1993). “Conversations with Paul Bowles”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This attitude breeds both the arrogance of the conservative and the bitterness of the radical.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Attitude, Believe, Men

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the way…Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, ‘there is joy is self-forgetfulness.’ So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness.

  Helen Keller

  Sweet, Eye, Fate

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