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Solitude without togetherness deteriorates into loneliness. One needs strong roots in togetherness to be solitary rather than lonely when one is alone.
David Steindl-Rast
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David Steindl-Rast
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 12
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Non-Fiction Writer
Psychologist
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Vienna
Austria
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If there is anything the artist or a true work of art teaches us, it is that variety and complexity really increase the unity, and that to achieve unity within a great variety of complexity is a greater achievement and more satisfying piece of art than to achieve unity with just a few elements, which is relatively easily achieved.
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Beauty seen makes the one who sees it more beautiful.
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