#solitude

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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being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

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Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. ↗

— Thomas Browne

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This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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Reading takes solitude and it takes focus. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

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During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. ↗

— Octavio Paz

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He is at home with his solitude as the note reverberating inside a bell. ↗

— Peter Heller

#home

Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time. ↗