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My aunt must have been perfectly well aware that she would not see Swann again, that she would never...

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Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget...

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Loneliness clarifies. Here silence standsLike heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flow...

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The farm is a base of operations–a stronghold. You can withdraw into yourself there. Solitude for re...

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Robert FrostInterviews with Robert Frost

You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

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Robert Louis StevensonThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endl...

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Sarah Orne JewettThe Country of the Pointed Firs

All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense ...

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The ingenious person will above all strive for freedom from pain and annoyance, for tranquility and ...

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. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, h...

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