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“It may be that I link every library to that first one - to my early childhood experience of drawing on the floor near my father's desk. A library is of course a real place, but it is also an unreal one. What happens there is mostly silent. I think I've always liked the whispering aspect of libraries, the hushing librarians and my feeling of solitude among many.”

Book:A Plea for Eros: Essays

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A Plea for Eros: Essays

This work presents a series of reflective essays that examine the nature of eros and its expression in human experience. The writing delves into questions of love, attraction, and the emotional bonds that connect people. Through literary analysis and personal reflection, the essays probe the complexities of desire and its role in art, relationships, and daily life. The collection offers readers an intellectual exploration of how eros shapes human perception and interaction with the world. more

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Siri Hustvedt

Siri Hustvedt is an American novelist born on February 19, 1955. Her works are known for their deep psychological insights and exploration of female experiences. Hustvedt's novels often blend philosophy, literature, and psychology, showcasing complex characters and inner worlds. more

“Whenever one speaks of lonely people one takes too much for granted. One thinks people all know what they're dealing with. No, they do not. They've never seen a lonely person, they've simply hated him without knowing him. They've been his neighbours who've used him up, they were the voices in the next room who tempted him. They roused things up against him, getting them to make a din and drown him out. Children ganged up against him when he was a tender child, and at every stage of his growing up he grew hostile to grown-ups . They tracked him to his hiding-place like an animal of chase and throughout his long youth there was no closed season. And when he didn't allow himself to be worn out so that he got away they yelled about what came forth from him and called it ugly and were suspicious of it. And as he didn't stop they grew more obvious and gobbled up his food and breathed up his air and spat into his poverty so that he himself became disgusted at it. They brought him into disrepute as if he were a contagion and threw stones at him to speed his departure. And they were right to follow their age-old instinct: because he really was their enemy. But then when he didn't look up they had second thoughts. They suspected that in all of this they had acted as he had willed them to act; they had strengthened him in his solitude and had helped him separate himself from them for ever.”

Sorrow Solitude Anxiety Loners Mobbing

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Hirota feels strongly drawn toward nature and the natural, is hyper-sensitive to the artificial—particularly that most cramped and constraining man-made creation, society—and does his best to avoid it.”

Culture Natural Society Modern Solitude Japan Artificial Academia Meiji Cosmopolitan Sanshiro

Book:Sanshirō

Source: Sanshirō

“In a lot of ways, living with Charlie was like having my own place, and I found myself reveling in the aloneness instead of being lonely.”

Solitude Solitude Quotes

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“You must always see your loneliness as an opportunity to meet something good unexpected, something new unknown before, something interesting not happened yet!”

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