#solitude

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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Solitude is independence. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#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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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

I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude. ↗

— Michael Chabon

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I owe my solitude to other people. ↗

— Alan Watts

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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 as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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

— Eugenio Montale

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Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude. ↗

— Frank Muir

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