#solitude

Solitude is independence. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#solitude

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

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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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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#life #losing #love #nostalgia #pain

Solitude is the place of purification. ↗

— Martin Buber

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Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#climb #echoing #feel #grit #heights

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#annihilate #attempted #especially #every #mass

From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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