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Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
Author: Kin Hubbard
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
Author: William Cowper
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Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. - The Man in the Water, 1994.
Author: Roger Rosenblatt
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There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. - Journal, December, 1900.
Author: Jules Renard
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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
Author: George Herbert
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He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. - Love's Cure, 1647.
Author: Fletcher
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Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. - Essays and Soliloquies, 1924.
Author: Miguel De Unanimo
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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
Author: Walter Benjamin
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
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We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
Author: Patricia Sampson
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The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. - The Silence of the Sea.
Author: Hilaire Belloc
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - Among My Books, 1870.
Author: James Russell Lowell
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Solitude is the playfield of Satan. - Pale Fire, 1962.
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character. - On Love, 1822.
Author: Stendhal
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Author: Thomas Haynes Bayly
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
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Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.
Author: Ashleigh
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I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
Author: Faye Dunaway
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Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. - My Summer in a Garden.
Author: Charles Dudley Warner
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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. - Lacon, 1825.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. - The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647.
Author: Baltasar Gracian
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. - The Labyrinth of Solitude, 1950.
Author: Octavio Paz
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A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.
Author: Elizabeth Ashley
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How glorious it is -- and also how painful -- to be an exception.
Author: Alfred De Musset
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I want to be left alone.
Author: Greta Garbo
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The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
Author: Anonymous
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Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
Author: Jonathan Larson
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
Author: Jackson Browne
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To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain. - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 1818.
Author: George Gordon Byron
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Silence is one great art of conversation.
Author: Anonymous
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I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Author: Brendan F. Behan
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