“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
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
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“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?”
― Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua
― Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
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