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Thomas Wolfe was an American novelist known for his expansive narrative style and profound psychological insights. His works, often set in the American South, explored the relationship between individuals and society, as well as the meaning of human existence. Wolfe's masterpiece, 'Look Homeward, Angel,' is considered a classic of American literature.

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Famous Thomas Wolfe Quotes

“For I have found the constant, everlasting weather of man’s life to be, not love, but loneliness. Love itself is not the weather of our lives. It is the rare, the precious flower. Sometimes it is the flower that gives us life, that breaches the dark walls of all our loneliness and restores us to the fellowship of life, the family of the earth, the brotherhood of man. But sometimes love is the flower that brings us death; and from it we get pain and darkness; and the mutilations of the soul, the maddening of the brain, may be in it.”

Love Life Loneliness

Book:God's Lonely Man

Source: God's Lonely Man

“The huge, dark wall of loneliness is around him now. It encloses and presses in upon him, and he cannot escape. And the cancerous plant of memory is feeding at his entrails, recalling hundreds of forgotten faces and ten thousand vanished days, until all life seems as strange and insubstantial as a dream.”

Loneliness Memory

Book:God's Lonely Man

Source: God's Lonely Man

“Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.”

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Book:You Can't Go Home Again

Source: You Can't Go Home Again

“The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.”

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Author:Thomas Wolfe

About the Author

Born: October 3, 1900
Died: September 15, 1938
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 66

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