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“Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
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“I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing.”
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“But there is saying, and there is doing, and almost always people do something better than they can talk about it, as though the minded body defeats every attempt to select out only the mind part as deserving sole responsibility for the success.”
― An Unknown Woman
― An Unknown Woman
“The endlessness of reflecting myself in other people's eyes. Turn a pair of eyes on me and instantly I begin looking in them for myself. I seem to believe there is no Me except in other eyes. I am what I see in your eyes, whoever you are. Why can't I see? What's wrong with my own eyes? If I knew how to look at what I see, then what? Then I wouldn't need other people's eyes.”
― An Unknown Woman
― An Unknown Woman
“There will be no nostalgia for the life you used to live: it belongs to someone you no longer are.”
― The Stations of Solitude
― The Stations of Solitude
