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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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But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

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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

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There is only one solitude, and it is great and is not easy to bear, and to almost everyone there come hours when they would gladly exchange it for so...more

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I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enoughto make every moment holy.I am too tiny in this world, and not tiny enoughjust to lie before you ...more

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I love the dark hours of my being.My mind deepens into them.There I can find, as in old letters,the days of my life, already lived,and held like a leg...more

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I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough.

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I want my own will, and I wantsimply to be with my will,as it goes toward action.And in the silent, sometimes hardly moving times,when something is co...more

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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.