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    Jodi Picoult
    “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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    Rollo May
    “In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.”
    ― Rollo May
    tags: creativity, quiet, solitude
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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
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, M Is for Magic
    tags: haunting, life, mind, stories, youth
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    Criss Jami
    “When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: advantage, alienation, alienation-versus-humanity, art, artist, authenticity, awkward, brain, compromise, craft, creative, fierce, genuine, humanity, humanity-versus-alienation, imagination, introversion, isolation, life, loner, originality, perspective, purity, social, socially-awkward, solitude, writing
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    Charles Bukowski
    “being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Women
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    Criss Jami
    “A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: bad-days, beautiful, divine-intervention, god, loneliness, quality-time, refresh, restoration, signs, solitude
    388 likes

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    Wayne W. Dyer
    “You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.”
    ― Wayne W. Dyer
    tags: lonliness, self-worth, solitude
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: loneliness, secret-knowledge, secrets, solitude
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    Criss Jami
    “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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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: companions, company, privacy, solitude
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    C.S. Lewis
    “We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
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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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    Albert Camus
    “In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

    [The Minotaur]”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
    tags: introspection, retreat, solitude
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    Albert Einstein
    “I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: growing-older, solitude
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    Audrey Hepburn
    “I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.”
    ― Audrey Hepburn
    tags: alone, content, privacy, refueling, reprive, restoration, solitude, weekend
    2019 likes

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    Aldous Huxley
    “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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    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
    1759 likes

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    John Milton
    “Solitude sometimes is best society.”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: companionship, privacy, solitude
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    May Sarton
    “Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.”
    ― May Sarton
    tags: contentment, loneliness, solitude
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    Greta Garbo
    “I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.”
    ― Greta Garbo, Garbo
    tags: dignity, freedom, privacy, respect, solitude
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    Anthony Burgess
    “To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.”
    ― Anthony Burgess, Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Essays
    tags: encroachment, privacy, solitude
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    Patrick Süskind
    “He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.”
    ― Patrick Suskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    tags: alone, solitude
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    Marcel Proust
    “Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
    ― Proust-M
    tags: books, literature, reading, solitude, words
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    Brennan Manning
    “Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others.”
    ― Brennan Manning, Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
    tags: beloved, faith, identity, self, silence, solitude
    194 likes

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    Alison Weir
    “I prefer to be left alone with my books.”
    ― Alison Weir, Innocent Traitor
    tags: book-lover, jane-grey, solitude
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    Rollo May
    “Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.”
    ― Rollo May, Man's Search for Himself
    tags: introspection, solitude
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    William Goldman
    “You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: solitude, sorrow
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more."

    (Letter to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787)”
    ― Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Vol 11, January 1787 to August 1787
    tags: solitude, travel
    137 likes

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