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I’ll be honest with you. I’m a little bit of a loner. It’s been a big part of my maturing process to...

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the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present ...

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It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is...

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Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied...

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Thomas MannDeath in Venice and Other Tales

My Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have. I hesitate to go out. If you opened the little ga...

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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring...

Since I neither want not can influence the events of the world, my mission is to preserve the intern...

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A creature that hides and “withdraws into its shell,” is preparing a “way out.” This is true of the ...

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Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any n...

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Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zen...

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For I see not what there is desirable in publick esteeme, were I able to acquire & maintaine it. It ...

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