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Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison to you.

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A: But why this solitude? - B: I am not at odds with anyone. But when I am alone I seem to see my friends in a clearer and fairer light than when I am...more

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The solitary speaks."One receives as a reward for much ennui , ill-humour and boredom, such as a solitude without friends, books, duties or passions m...more

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But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

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I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it,if there were not a friend?The friend of the hermit is always the third one: the...more

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Where solitude endeth, there beginneth the market-place; and where the market-place beginneth, there beginneth also the noise of the great actors, and...more

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Believe me, friend Hellishnoise: the greatest events—they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.

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Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored depths of the self, without delusions or fictions...more

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Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say: when we are alone and quiet we are afraid that somethi...more

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These solitary ones who are free in spirit know thatin one thing or another they must constantly put on an appearance that is different from the way t...more