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    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, simile
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “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
    tags: desperate, life, losing, love, nostalgia, pain, regret, solitude
    3128 likes

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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: autumn, fall, solitude
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    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
    tags: 208, solitude
    1273 likes

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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings
    tags: heart, solitude, sorrow
    628 likes

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    Michel de Montaigne
    “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: ataraxy, independence, individuality, inspirational, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
    tags: freedom, solitude
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: peace, solitude
    92 likes

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    Saul Bellow
    “With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything...”
    ― Saul Bellow, Herzog
    tags: death, life, solitude
    104 likes

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    Thomas Merton
    “But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.”
    ― Thomas Merton
    tags: comfort, enquiry, silence, solitude
    218 likes

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    Mary Doria Russell
    “How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?”
    ― Mary Doria Russell, Children of God
    tags: solitude, soul
    120 likes

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    Sidney Sheldon
    “Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache.”
    ― Sidney Sheldon, Master of the Game
    tags: jamie, loneliness, solitude
    89 likes

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    Natalie Goldberg
    “Anything we fully do is an alone journey.”
    ― Natalie Goldberg
    tags: solitude, writing
    53 likes

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    Marcus Aurelius
    “For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: ataraxy, independence, individuality, retire, self, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
    411 likes

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    Lisa Kleypas
    “I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.

    -Ella Varner”
    ― Lisa Kleypas, Smooth Talking Stranger
    tags: ella-varner, humor, jack-travis, procrastination
    226 likes

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    Tennessee Williams
    “Time is the longest distance between two places.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
    tags: distance, time
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
    tags: distance, love
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “It is a long way off, sir"
    "From what Jane?"
    "From England and from Thornfield: and ___"
    "Well?"
    "From you, sir”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: departure, distance, leaving
    164 likes

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    Cormac McCarthy
    “I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
    tags: closeness, distance, perspective
    82 likes

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    Paulo Coelho
    “Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.”
    ― Paulo Coelho
    tags: distance, inspirational, journey, longing, love, melancholy
    28 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
    tags: distance, journey, time, travel
    37 likes

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  • #23
    “distance is created by time is further than space”
    ― Aditia Rinaldi
    tags: distance, space, time
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    Toba Beta
    “You're still in prison if you do nothing better in freedom.”
    ― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
    tags: doing-better, freedom, prison
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    Alain de Botton
    “We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).”
    ― Alain de Botton
    tags: architecture, buildings, museums
    29 likes

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    Tom Wolfe
    “[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, he could feel the mass and stupendous weight.Just think of the millions, from all over the globe, who yearned to be on that island, in those towers, in those narrow streets! There it was, the Rome, the Paris, the London of the twentieth century, the city of ambition, the dense magnetic rock, the irresistible destination of all those who insist on being where things are happening-and he was among the victors!”
    ― Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
    tags: 1980s, buildings, density, dreams, island, manhattan, new-york, new-york-city, paris, power, rome, skyscrapers, towers, victor
    19 likes

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    Robert W. Service
    “The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire”
    ― Robert W. Service, Rhymes of a Rolling Stone
    tags: travel, traveling, wanderlust
    168 likes

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    Elizabeth Bishop
    “all my life i have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something.”
    ― Elizabeth Bishop
    tags: ocean, wanderlust
    93 likes

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  • #30
    “Wanderlust is incurable.”
    ― Mark Jenkins, The Hard Way: Stories of Danger, Survival, and the Soul of Adventure
    tags: travel, wanderlust
    41 likes

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  • #31
    Georgia Cates
    “Music is what feelings sound like out loud. I sing songs that speak from my heart. They tell my story, how I feel.”
    ― Georgia Cates, Beauty from Pain
    119 likes



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