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Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
Thomas de Quincey
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Thomas de Quincey
Age: 74 †
Born: 1785
Born: August 15
Died: 1859
Died: December 8
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Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times that the symptoms of it are in fact very prevalent, and that one of the chief symptoms is an enormous 'gluttonism' for books.
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Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.
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All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.
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Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.
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