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Whenever one speaks of lonely people one takes too much for granted. One thinks people all know what they're dealing with. No, they do not. They've ne...more

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The more we speak of solitude, the clearer it becomes that at the bottom it is not something one can choose to take or leave. We are lonely. One can d...more

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And children are still the way you were ...as a child, sad and happy in just the same way and if you think of your childhood, you once again live amon...more

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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

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At first the solitudecharmed me like a prelude,but so much music wounded me.

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We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.

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If somewhere deep within me arises some essenceof having been a child, one I never experienced,perhaps the purest childness of my childhood,I don’t wa...more

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Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor futurelessens . . . . Superabundant existencewells in my heart.

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Never forget that solitude is my lot ... I implore those who love me to love my soli

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Art is childhood.

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Do you remember how this life of yours longed in childhood to belong to the grown-ups? I can see that it now longs to move on from them and is drawn t...more

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[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another...more

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I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.

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What is needed is this, and this alone: solitude, great inner loneliness. Going into oneself and not meeting anyone for hours – that is what one must ...more

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Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows tha...more