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• The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and dusk, and unlike other trade the hours asleep are not time off.

  Keith Miller

  Coffee, Writing, Wine

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• Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Character, Way

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• Then what am I - the body substance which I can see with my eyes and feel with my hands? Or am I this realization, this greater understanding which dwells within it, yet expands through the universe outside; a part of all existence, powerless but without need for power; immersed in solitude, yet in contact with all creation? There are moments when the two appear inseparable, and others when they could be cut apart by the merest flash of light.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Eye, Cutting, Light

  "The Spirit of St. Louis".

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• Cause if you’re happy in your head, then solitude is blessed, and alone is okay.

  Tanya Davis

  Blessed, Causes, Okay

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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

  Soul, Crowds, Unseen

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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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• There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn't. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.

  Henry Cloud

  Differences, Isolation, Connected

  Twitter post from Feb 19, 2015

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• There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.

  May Sarton

  Winter, Alive, Wilder

  May Sarton (2014). “As Does New Hampshire: And Other Poems”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.

  Samuel Johnson

  Dream, Art, Philosophy

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.167

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• Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves

  Samuel Johnson

  Too Much, Study, States

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.185

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• Feeling weightless... it's so many things together. A feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, sticky. You feel exquisitely comfortable... and you feel you have so much energy, such an urge to do things, such an ability to do things. And you work well, yes, you think well, without sweat, without difficulty as if the biblical curse in the sweat of thy face and in sorrow no longer exists, As if you've been born again.

  Wally Schirra

  Dirty, Biblical, Pride

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• Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.

  Giuseppe Verdi

  Blessed, Affair, Born

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• The cure for too much to do is solitude and silence.

  Ken Blanchard

  Silence, Too Much, Cures

  Ken Blanchard (2010). “The Heart of a Leader”, p.84, David C Cook

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• Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Civilization, Going Out, World

  "Of God and Men". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1960.

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• Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent." Bill Clinton "The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

  Steve Schmidt

  Pride, People, Independence

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• Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void, but the vastness of the solitude. It's as well if you are frightened of solitude. It's a sign that you have come to the moment of your birth.

  Helene Cixous

  Vastness, Void, Birth

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• Find a day for yourself-better yet, late at night. Go to the forest or to the field, or lock yourself in a room ... You will meet solitude there. There you will be able to listen attentively to the noise of the wind first, to birds singing, to see wonderful nature and to notice yourself in it ... and to come back to harmonic connection with the world and its Creator.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Night, Wind, Bird

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• Seclusion is the price of greatness.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Wisdom, Greatness, Feeling Lonely

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1966). “Self-realization Magazine”

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• Everybody likes to see the loner hitched. It tells them everything is right with the world.

  Philip O Ceallaigh

  Loner, World, Likes

  Philip Ó Ceallaigh (2006). “Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse”

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• What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice doesn't care about who you find. It just keeps pestering you, tormenting you.

  Charles Baxter

  Mistake, Voice, Care

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.87, Vintage

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• What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours-that is what you must be able to attain. To be solitary as you were when you were a child.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Children, Able, Hours

  "Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke, 6, 1929.

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• I like people. I like watching them. It's just that I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very powerful binoculars.

  Geraldine McCaughrean

  Powerful, People, Miles

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• I am not a joiner. Somewhere I once said that people join clubs now for the very reason they once carried them, a need for security. Maybe I'm alone more often than I should be, because I try to find security within myself.

  Rod McKuen

  People, Trying, Needs

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• [Kierkegaard] did not care for large public events because every crowd is in itself an untruth. The only way out is isolation, aloofness. Only the individual is a reality and only the individual is true. Maybe the process of isolation in an individual is one of the most important matters that exists. Is not the whole point of this world for people to separate and become individuals?

  Mati Unt

  Reality, People, Important

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• Every so often a disappearance is in order. A vanishing. A checking out. An indeterminate period of unavailability. Each person, each sane person, maintains a refuge, or series of refuges, for this purpose. A place, or places, where they can, figuratively if not literally, suspend their membership in the human race.

  John Murray

  Race, Order, Purpose

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