“The observations and encounters of a man of solitude and few words are at once more nebulous and more intense than those… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
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Well, we're grasping for two things at once. Partly for communion with others - that's the deepest instinct in us. And partly,… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I hate solitude but I am afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself and to… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“On one side, across the channel, stretched the silvery sand shore of the bar; on the other extended a long, curving beach… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
There is an old proverb to the effect that 'all those who open their mouths, close their eyes!' The purpose of silence… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“And it was during this period that Madeleine fully understood how the lover's discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Life is a solitary confinement , Every second is a punishment - of a crime , that was never committed , Or… — BinYamin Gulzar Copy Share Image
“I ran toward the solitude of the dressing room. Of course, the full length mirror would have it's own disappointments, but I… — Lisa Burstein Copy Share Image
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Solitude delighteth well to feed on many thoughts; There as thou sittest peaceful, communing with fancy, The precious poetry of life shall… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
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your soul needs to be lonely so that its strangest elements can moil about, curl and growl and jump, fail and get… — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
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My Aunt Maria asked me to read the life of Dr. Chalmers, which, however, I did not promise to do. Yesterday, Sunday,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
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“ The Lake In spring of youth it was my lot To haunt of the wide world a spot The which I… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
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Every so often a disappearance is in order. A vanishing. A checking out. An indeterminate period of unavailability. Each person, each sane… — John Murray Copy Share Image
The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment one's… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
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“I was born the 26th of December. . . Arrive by dint of perseverance, but step by step. . . Tenancy to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. [It allows you to] be the Mungo Park, the Lewis and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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“…I tell you that loneliness itself is the secret. It’s a secret you cannot tell anyone. Why? Because to confess your loneliness… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
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As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The Spiritual Disciplines are things that we do. We must never lose sight of this fact. It is one thing to talk… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“From outside the evangelical community, this seems an astonishing confession. Since when is solitude one of the Seven Deadly Sins? But to… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
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