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

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No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted,...

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Consciousness is a born hermit.

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George SantayanaThe Life of Reason and Other Works by George Santayana

The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves ...

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I believe that that love remains strong and intense in your memory because it was your first deep al...

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The SolitaryAs one who has sailed across an unknown sea,among this rooted folk I am alone;the full d...

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I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure...

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Robert BurtonThe Anatomy of Melancholy

The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any o...

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...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who lo...

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Shirley JacksonJust an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who lo...

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Shirley JacksonJust an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who lo...

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Shirley Jackson (physicist)Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who lo...

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Shirley Jackson (physicist)Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

[Sylvia Plath] was now far along a peculiarly solitary road on which not many would risk following h...

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Al AlvarezThe Savage God: A Study of Suicide