Solitude Quotes
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One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Solitude is a wonderful thing in two ways. First, it allows a man to be with himself, and second, it prevents him being with others.
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It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.
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But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude.
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Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.
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Here I am, a wild beast cut off from his companions.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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Tears do not burn except in solitude.
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The important thing is to know why we want to dance. We dance a solitude that we have inside us and cannot occupy with anything. This gap, that emptiness to which we put movement is the TANGO.
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I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night / With some friend that has the wit.
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You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I should have been a tap dancer or something". But in my life, I feel like I take my stories to people orally.
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Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die.
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Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.
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She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me.
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More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.
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A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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I think solitude is a really positive thing. I cherish solitude immensely. In today’s society, there’s so much pressure to communicate, eat out, be friends with people. Why can’t you read a book on your own? Why have you got to have a book club?
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Loneliness is random; solitude is ritual.
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I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.
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Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.