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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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Then suddenly you’re left all alonewith your body that can’t love youand your will that can’t save you.

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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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It seems to him there area thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world.

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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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That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.

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Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through the evening, and wander on...more

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Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders? And even if one of them suddenly pressed me against his heart, I should fade in the strength ...more

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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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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 among them...more

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To retreat into oneself and meet nobody for hours on end—that is what one must be able to attain. To be alone, as one was alone as a child, when the g...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