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Tag Name "Solitude" (943)

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And being alone is the best way to be When I'm by myself it's the best way to be When I'm all alone it's the best way to be When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye
Edie Brickell
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If he must be alone, he would make solitude his armor.
George R. R. Martin
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And yet my life seemed to be just one big mass of people. I would never ask some people in for tea to fill up time. I just never would do it. Whenever I seemed to have a quiet hole, I would paint. That was what I would choose to do to fill up the time.
Myfanwy Pavelic
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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
Louis Aragon
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I have been in lots of very intense life situations. I have been shot at, and I have been hungry, and I have been in solitude, and I have also briefly been behind bars. So in a way, I know the heart of men.
Werner Herzog
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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself.
George Herbert
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Only the bad man is alone.
Denis Diderot
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The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.
Criss Jami
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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
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The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.
Thomas Browne
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What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.
Edith Wharton
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The cure for too much to do is solitude and silence.
Ken Blanchard
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A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert... gods look over his shoulder he creates in their company. What does he care whether or not anybody admires his picture?
Rudolf Steiner
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A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.
Aldous Huxley
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We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.
Henri Barbusse
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Octavio Paz
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The thought of attention made me want to hide in a closet. I wasn't a kid who liked attention. I liked solitude and I still kind of do.
Daria Werbowy
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To feel themselves in the presence of true greatness many find it necessary only to be alone.
Thomas Lansing Masson
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Do your work for six years but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.
Leo Szilard
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I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.
Mark Burnett
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
Louise Erdrich
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The modern listening experience is one of solitude, where someone just listens to music on their laptop.
Ed Simons
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God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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