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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 live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
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“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― The Prophet
― The Prophet
“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
Amy’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Amy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
44 books
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4 friends
232 books
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15 friends
898 books
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342 books
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17 friends
1,615 books
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21 friends
103 books
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7 friends
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