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#1

“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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#2

“Suddenly he saw himself as others in the crowd must surely see him; a silent, solitary figure, standing apart from the rest. He looked out at the hoardes of singing, laughing people and felt more alone than he'd ever felt in his life. Was this how it was going to be then? Was this who he was? A man apart from his fellows, making the journey through life alone?”
― Mary Lawson, The Other Side of the Bridge

tags: lonliness, shyness, social-anxiety

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#3

“I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. I have learned to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present because that is where I am destined to live.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

tags: drifter, future, lonely, loner, past

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#4

“There are times i wish i was a master magician so i could disappear into the folds of time, without consequence, without missing a beat. As an introvert, i need so much time to myself. I feel expansive and peaceful in my own space, constricted and chained, when confined to social situations. I can't blossom when pressed against everyone else.”
― Jaeda DeWalt

tags: being-an-introvert, introvertedness, loner, solitude

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#5

“Worldly possessions didn't matter much to him, but his freedom did. He could come and go as he pleased, with nothing more than the backpack underneath his seat. It was a simple existence for a simple man.”
― Rose Wynters, My Wolf Protector

tags: freedom-of-choice, freedom-of-thought, life, living, loner

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#6

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude

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#7

“I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.”
― Arundhati Roy

tags: loner

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#8

“In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

tags: brooding, enlightenment, expression, face, faces, life, loneliness, loner, peace, pensive, restlessness, silence, sorrow, thought, wandering, wisdom, wise-man

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#9

“The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: alone, art, author, blessed, boredom, company, contemplate, contentment, creativity, curse, good-company, growth, hard-work, imagination, independent, loneliness, perseverance, reflection, self-sufficient, solitude, time, writer

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#10

“Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

tags: anti-hero, genius, misunderstood, reality, superheroes, truth, universal

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#11

“Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but i feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people then i feel on my owm.”
― Henry Rollins

tags: boring, i, loneliness, lonely, loner, people, sad

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#12

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life

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#13

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: attributed-no-source

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#14

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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#15

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art, inspirational

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#16

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso

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#17

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen Hawking

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#18

“Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

tags: philosophy, science, search-for-meaning

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#19

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: philosophy, science

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#20

“For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: future, ideas, science, talking

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#21

“It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.”
― Stephen Hawking

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#22

“I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: computer-viruses, computers, creation, humor, life

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#23

“The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.”
― Stephen W. Hawking

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#24

“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus."

[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]”
― Stephen W. Hawking

tags: appreciation, carpe-diem, expectations, gratitude, life, misfortunes, spirit, strength, unbreakable-spirit

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#25

“The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for a Grand Designer, and revealing how the universe created itself. … Time itself must come to a stop. You can’t get to a time before the big bang, because there was no time before the big bang. We have finally found something that does not have a cause because there was no time for a cause to exist in. For me this means there is no possibility of a creator because there is no time for a creator to have existed. Since time itself began at the moment of the Big Bang, it was an event that could not have been caused or created by anyone or anything. … So when people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them the question itself makes no sense. Time didn’t exist before the Big Bang, so there is no time for God to make the universe in. It’s like asking for directions to the edge of the Earth. The Earth is a sphere. It does not have an edge, so looking for it is a futile exercise.”
― Stephen W. Hawking

tags: beginning, big-bang, caucasian, cause, cosmology, origin, philosophy, physics, science, space, time, universe

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#26

“Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free.”
― Stephen Hawking, Sigan Ŭn Hangsang Mirae Ro Hŭrŭnŭnʼga: Hokʻing Paksa Ŭi Chaemi Innŭn Chʻoesin Ujuron

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#27

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: education, schooling, university

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