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#1

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

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#2

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: introspection, solitude

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#3

“Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

tags: art, artist, artistic, contemplating, dreams, experience, fantasy, fun, imagination, life, perception, perspective, poetry, reading, reality, solitude, songwriting, thinking, thoughts, universe, vicarious, writing

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#4

“I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the
room was like sunlight to me.”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

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#5

“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.”
― May Sarton

tags: contentment, loneliness, solitude

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#6

“I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

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#7

“Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

tags: buddha, suffering

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#8

“I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.”
― Nina LaCour, Hold Still

tags: friendship, hurt, love, suicide, suicide-note

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#9

“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

tags: fear, paradox, suffer, suffering

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