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title: "3 Men Solitude Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-james/religion-shall-mean-for-us-the-feelings-acts-and-experiences-of/)

[William James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-james/)

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> [Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gaston-bachelard/childhood-knows-unhappiness-through-men-in-solitude-it-can-relax-its/)

[Gaston Bachelard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gaston-bachelard/)

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> [You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/you-think-that-i-am-impoverishing-myself-withdrawing-from-men-but-in/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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