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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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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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[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

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And that is why it is so important to be solitary and attentive when one is sad: because the seemingly uneventful and motionless moment when our futur...more

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It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it.

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And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.

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It is true that many young people who wrongly, that is, simply with abandon and unsolitarily, feel the oppressiveness of a failure and want to make th...more

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it is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is s...more