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“My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.”
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“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
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“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
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“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.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
Alain de Botton
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