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• Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you… — Charles Bukowski
• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness… — Oscar Wilde
• It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough… — Luigi Pirandello
• The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more… — François-René de Chateaubriand
• The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful… — Rabindranath Tagore
• I live alone with my one dog and they say it like it's a sad, it's a terrible thing. This woman lives… — Julie Bowen
• You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it… — Elizabeth Edwards
• When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you… — Ben Harper
• That said, deciding to avoid other people does not necessarily equate with having no desire whatsoever for company; it may simply reflect… — Alain de Botton
• One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage… — Aldo Leopold
• Let us respect others no one lives alone in a city, a nation, or a world. — Thomas S. Monson
• Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like… — Sarah Addison Allen

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