#solitude

Solitude begets whimsies. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#solitude

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

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In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#carefree #explains #free state #happy #houses

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while. ↗

— Tom Hanks

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When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken. ↗

— Jules Verne

#equality

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion. ↗

— Marilu Henner

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Solitude is independence. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#mind #more #original #powerful #religion

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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