Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books. — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
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The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book. — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
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If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
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I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It's usually… — Colin Hay Copy Share Image
Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
They do not signify, these landscapes of the mind, with their shocking instants of awareness. They merely resonate, like the chemistry of… — Jim Perrin Copy Share Image
When you're writing it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea. It's nice- that… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
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I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO… — Cecily McMillan Copy Share Image
Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I didn't mind the 23 hours a day solitary confinement for the majority of the time, because after the first few years… — Nick Yarris Copy Share Image
it is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to live. The… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
As a young boy, Charles Darwin made friends easily but preferred to spend his time taking long, solitary nature walks. (As an… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“It scares us more than anything except death. Being alone. Our fear of solitude is so ingrained that given the choice of… — Lionel Fisher Copy Share Image
I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Meetings are held because men seek companionship or, at a minimum, wish to escape the tedium of solitary duties. They yearn for… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
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