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“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: loneliness

2311 likes

“As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
Even a small love.”
― Anne Sexton

tags: poetry

3236 likes

“Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: affable, alone, amicable, anchoress, anchorite, anthropocentric, anthropocentrism, antisocial, approachable, ascetic, by-oneself, chummy, cloistered, clubby, communicative, companionable, companionless, convivial, cordial, eremite, extrovert, forthcoming, friendless, friendly, genial, gregarious, hail-fellow-well-met, hermit, hermitic, incommunicado, introvert, isolate, isolation, lone-wolf, lonely, loner, lonesome, marabout, misanthrope, misanthropy, on-one-s-own, open, outgoing, recluse, reclusive, responsive, seclude, secluded, sociable, solitarian, solitary, solitudinarian, troglodyte, unaccompanied, unsociable, warm, withdrawn

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“Misanthropes have some admirable - if paradoxical - virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are likely to meet. Because good manners build sturdy walls, our distaste for intimacy makes us exceedingly cordial. “ships that pass in the night.” As long as you remain a stranger we will be your friend forever.”
― Florence King

tags: misanthropy

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