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• Red like blood White like bone Red like solitude White like silence Red like the beastly instinct White like a god's heart Red like thawing hatred White like a frozen, pained cry Red like the night's hungry shadows Like a sigh piercing the moon it shines white and shatters red

  Tite Kubo

  Heart, Moon, Night

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• beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you to kill anybody not wanting solitude not understanding solitude they will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own not being able to create art they will not understand art they will consider their failure as creators only as a failure of the world

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Love Is, Men

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.149, Canongate Books

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• Villages and woods, meadows and chateaux, pass across the moving scene, out of which the whistling of locomotives throws sharp notes. These faint, piercing sounds, together with the yelping and barking of dogs, are the only noises that reach one through the depths of the upper air. The human voice cannot mount up into these boundless solitudes. Human beings look like ants along the white lines that are highways; and the rows of houses look like children's playthings.

  Alberto Santos-Dumont

  Dog, Children, Moving

  Alberto Santos-Dumont, (2013). “My Air-Ships”, p.24, Read Books Ltd

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• How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood? And it is no accident that, in a tranquil reverie, we often follow the slope which returns us to our childhood solitudes.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Communication, Childhood

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• Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes up time when you might be doing individual private things, but it prevents you storing up the psychic energy that can then be released to create art or whatever it is. It's terrible the way we scotch silence & solitude at every turn, quite suicidal. I can't see how to avoid it, without being very rich or very unpopular, & it does worry me, for time is slipping by , and nothing is done. It isn't as if anything was gained by this social frivolity, It isn't: it's just a waste.

  Philip Larkin

  Art, Suicidal, Thinking

  Philip Larkin (2012). “Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica”, Faber & Faber

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• Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader. All are to be tomorrow's big leaders - those who in solitude sit above the clang and dust of time, with the world's secret trembling on their lips.

  Newell Dwight Hillis

  Leadership, Self, Dust

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• Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.

  Naomi Judd

  Friendship, Creativity, Soul

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• We never touch but at points.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.279, Harvard University Press

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• The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.

  Thornton Wilder

  Leadership, Order, Issues

  Thornton Wilder (1987). “The ides of March”, HarperCollins

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• Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Buddhism, World

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• One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should devote himself to solitude.

  Gautama Buddha

  Humility, Pride, Acquisition

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• A pretext-not a cause-is sufficient for us to enter the "solitary situation", the situation of the dreaming solitude. In this solitude, memories arrange themselves in tableaux. Decor takes precedence over drama. Sad memories take on at least the peace of melancholy.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Memories, Drama

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• Boys need to learn the value of spiritual solitude. For the soul to grow, it needs those moments of no-stimulation, of wakeful peace. Because we adults don't usually practice enough solitude—because we are always 'doing' things—we often neglect to teach our boys to find solitude

  Michael Gurian

  Spiritual, Boys, Practice

  Michael Gurian (2006). “The Wonder of Boys”, p.202, Penguin

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• As our lives speed up more and more, so do our children's. We forget and thus they forget that there is nothing more important than the present moment. We forget and thus they forget to relax, to find spiritual solitude, to let go of the past, to quiet ambition, to fully enjoy the eating of a strawberry, the scent of a rose, the touch of a hand on a cheek...

  Michael Gurian

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Children

  Michael Gurian (2006). “The Wonder of Boys”, p.199, Penguin

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• Solitude. One knows instinctively it has benefits that must be more deeply satisfying than those of other conditions, but still it is difficult.

  James Salter

  Benefits, Difficult, Stills

  James Salter (1995). “A Sport and a Pastime”

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• Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Silence, Serious, Plunge

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• Solitude is considered un-American.

  Erica Jong

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• I didn't choose solitude.

  Klaus Kinski

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• She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Waiting, Weight

  Albert Camus (1964). “The fall, & Exile and the kingdom”, Random House Inc

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• It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

  Russell Banks

  Reality, Years, Checks

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• I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.

  Michael Chabon

  Thinking, Fortresses

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• Hours of solitude, hours of creation, hours of meditation. Solitude and meditation gave me an awareness, a perspective which I have never lost: that of solidarity with the rest of mankind.

  Vicente Aleixandre

  Perspective, Meditation, Awareness

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• If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the love of children. No circumstance can render this world wholly a solitude to one who has this possession

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Children, Quality, World

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.245, Reprint Services Corporation

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• In a cool solitude of trees Where leaves and birds a music spin, Mind that was weary is at ease, New rhythms in the soul begin.

  William Kean Seymour

  Bird, Tree, Soul

  William Kean Seymour (1946). “Collected Poems”

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• Maybe love won't let you down. All of your failures are training grounds and just as your back's turned, you'll be surprised... as your solitude subsides.

  Jenny Lewis

  Failure, Training, Maybe Love

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