Commune Quote by Wallace Stegner

“And yet, and yet. This place exerts an elemental pull on me. There is no end of fascinations. People talk all the time, calling…

— Teju Cole

“I’ve got nothing against outsiders, per se, you understand. It’s just that you have to love a town before you can live in it…

— Russell Banks

“You must not let yourself be misled, in your solitude, by the fact that there is something in you which wants to escape from…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“We have to wonder what this might suggest about the relationship between the public realm and private lives in our settlement. Some have proposed…

— Chang-rae Lee

“In the country one sees only nature's fair works, and one's soul is not saddened by the cruel struggle for mere existence that goes…

— Helen Keller

“Here too, as in the Commune almost a century earlier, the struggle was articulated around the hope that 'the antithesis between the everyday and…

— Tom McDonough

“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

“We are, on earth, two distinct races. Those who have need of others, whom others amuse, engage soothe, whom solitude harasses, pains, stupefies, like…

— Guy de Maupassant

“I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way to escape growing old. I am of the nature to have ill…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“Each of us is several, is man, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same…

— Pascal Mercier

“For some days I haunted the spot where these scenes had taken place, sometimes wishing to see you, sometimes resolved to quit the world…

— Mary Shelley

“‎The simple truth is that you can understand a town. You can know and love and hate it. You can blame it, resent it,…

— Brenna Yovanoff