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“I should be able to return to solitude each time as to the place I have never described to anybody, as the place which…

— Thomas Merton

“The Master said, “The gentleman does not serve as a vessel.” (Analects 2.12)”

— Confucius

“I am a man who is come. I am a man who is here. I bring nothing but myself and will take away nothing…

— Graham Edwards

“Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.”

— Eldridge Cleaver

“I am not very sociable and am always glad to return to solitude and the freedom that goes with solitude. This desire for freedom…

— Aldous Huxley

“Nor yours nor mine, nor slave nor free!”

— Robert Browning

“There are people, gentlemen, who dislike roundabout ways and only mask themselves at masquerades. There are people who do not see man’s highest avocation…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“A man is fit for neither business nor pleasure, who either cannot, or does not, command and direct his attention to the present object,…

— Earl of Chesterfield

“Before the Man is able to master, control, and direct the things belonging to him—his tools and instruments—he must awaken to a realization of…

— Yogi Ramacharaka

“ Solitude Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground.…

— Alexander Pope

“In solitude, you will find yourself; in crowds, you will find others! You need both of them: Solitude and crowds; yourself and others! Without…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened…

— Charles Bukowski