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May God be gracious to each lonely one who walks in silence towards the setting sun. -
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Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of the wicked, and the joy of the good. -
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You have already failed if you need a lot of inspectors. -
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In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention. -
Simone Weil
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When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude. -
William Wordsworth
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Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad. -
Samuel Johnson
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. -
Henry David Thoreau
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Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones. -
Sydney Smith
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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. -
Laurence Sterne
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone, I never found the companionable as solitude. -
Henry David Thoreau
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An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. -
Henry Miller
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. -
Henry David Thoreau
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