“ Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. ”
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“ We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. ”
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“ The value of solitude – one of its values – is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression. ”
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“ There is no place more intimate than the spirit alone: It finds a lovely certainty in the evening and the morning. ”
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“ I simply adore being alone – I find it a consuming thirst – and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy. ”
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“ Solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people… precludes awareness of one’s self so that after a while the self no longer knows that it exists. ”
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“ My need to be alone is balanced against my fear of what will happen when suddenly I enter the huge empty silence if I cannot find support there. ”
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“ Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe. ”
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“ The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever. ”
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“ Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. ”
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“ Without darkness nothing comes to birth, as without light nothing flowers. ”
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“ Without darkness nothing comes to birth, as without light nothing flowers. ”
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“ Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience. ”
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“ We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. ”
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“ We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. ”
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“ Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill. ”
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“ Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill. ”
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“ I am not ready to die, But I am learning to trust death As I have trusted life. I am moving Toward a new freedom ”
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“ For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading. ”
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“ I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other timeexcept maybe when I'm making love. ”
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“ Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels. ”
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“ Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite. ”
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“ Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite. ”
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“ We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. ”
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