"To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude."

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"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."

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"A writer who writes, I am alone... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes."

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"The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech."

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"The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold."

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"The right to be alone -- the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man."

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"Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily."

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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."

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"This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude."

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"In solitude, where we are least alone."

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