“Amid the solitude in which he lived, without new nourishment, without any fresh experiences, without any renovation of thought, without that exchange of sensations common to society, in this unnatural confinement in which he persisted, all the questionings forgotten during his stay in Paris were revived as active irritants.” Solitude Book:Against Nature Source: Against Nature
“he felt a glow of pleasure at the idea that here he would be too far out for the tidal wave of Parisian life to reach him, and yet near enough for the proximity of the capital to strengthen him in his solitude.” SolitudeDepressionCrowdStudiousHermitic Book:Against Nature Source: Against Nature
“At the memory of how tired, how embarrassed he'd been, M. Folantin considered himself lucky to be able to dine where he pleased and to spend the rest of the evening in his room; he reckoned that solitude had its advantages, that to mull over old memories and recount idle gossip to oneself was still preferable to the company of people with whom one shared neither convictions, nor sympathy; his desire to be sociable, to rub shoulders with others, evaporated and, once again, he repeated this depressing truth: that when old friends disappear, one should resolve not to look for others, but to live apart, to habituate oneself to isolation.” SolitudeSociableAdvantages Of Solitude Book:Downstream Source: Downstream
“Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form.” MindIdeasDreamFormNightGrewSolitudeContemplationVague Book:Against the Grain Source: Against the Grain
“Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human stupidity.” HumansDreamSolitudeComfortableStupidityDesertRefugeRefinedUnendingArkDelugeHuman Stupidity Book:Against the Grain Source: Against the Grain
