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“I knew that I would never in any book find anything about people who were like me...... no poet had yet written about such a being, because it had never occurred to any poet that it could exist.”

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Book:Man into Woman: The First Sex Change

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“She looked out at the city. All of Tevanne was smeared with starlit smoke and steam, a ghostly cityscape sinking into the fog. The huge white campo walls surfaced among the ramble of the Commons like the bones ofa bleached whale. Behind them stood the towers of the campos, which glowed with soft, colorful luminescence. Among them was the Michiel clock tower, its face a bright, cheery pink, and beyond that was the Mountain of the Candianos, the biggest structure in all of Tevanne, a huge dome that reminded her of a fat, swollen tick, sitting in the center of the Candiano campo. She felt lonely, and small. Sancia had always been alone. But feeling lonely was different from just being alone.”

Aloneness Skyline

Book:Foundryside

Source: Foundryside

“Learn from those who absent themselves when you need their presence. They will teach you how to face difficult circumstances.”

Life Lessons Motivation Quotes Gift Gugu Mona Quotes Gift Gugu Mona Philosophy Gift Gugu Mona Library Wisdom Nuggets Gift Gugu Mona Musings Learn Presence

Book:The Daily Dose of Motivational Quotes

Source: The Daily Dose of Motivational Quotes

“I lay in bed absorbing fear, collecting strength, enjoying the slumberous sounds of solitude. To perish without love, I think, is a tragedy worth knowing.”

Death Poetry Fear Horror Solitude Love Quote Aloneness

Book:Shadows Before the Maiming

Source: Shadows Before the Maiming

“Learning to be alone is to learn how to solidify the self. Aloneness teaches us how to hold the self as a tree, how to firm up from within.”

Life Inspirational Healing Tree Solitude Emotions Aloneness

Author:Jayita Bhattacahrjee

“I want never to leave this place. I want never to see another human again. I want it more than I've ever wanted anything. The aloneness is exquisite; it is calm.”

Solitude Aloneness

Book:Once There Were Wolves

Source: Once There Were Wolves

“Seek to be alone much to commune with Nature and be thus inspired by her mighty whisperings within your consciousness. Nature is a most jealous god, for she will not whisper her inspiring revelations to you unless you are absolutely alone with her. (p. 9)”

Philosophy Nature Meditation Contemplation Aloneness Walter Russell

Book:The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe

Source: The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe

“but i am what i am. woman. alone amid all this noise.”

Poetry Women Poem Solitude Being Alone Aloneness

Book:Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems

Source: Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems

“I think I'm really good at travel and less good at what happens when you stand still," he says. "I like to be a visitor. In places, in hotels, sometimes in other people's lives.”

Travel Detachment Aloneness Alone But Not Lonely

Book:One Italian Summer

Source: One Italian Summer

“The love of peace of mind is often wrongly identified as the hatred of people, some people, or some person.”

Philosophy Solitude Alone Peace Of Mind Pessimism Introvert Aloneness Hate People Misanthropy Me Time

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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