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“Loneliness is a passive state. It is a compulsion when you are left on your own by others. Solitude, on the other hand, is a fully conscious choice that you make.”

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“Although it is true that this counterthought attests to an absolute solitude, it is an extremely populous solitude, like the desert itself, a solitude already intertwined with a people to come, one that invokes and awaits that people, existing only through it, though it is not yet here.” — Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, translated by Brian Massumi, University of Minnesota Press, 1987, p. 377.”

Thinking Philosophy Wisdom Becoming Solitude Being The Philosopher

Book:Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

Source: Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?" "Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”

Death Living

Book:Survivor

Source: Survivor

“Many solitaries living in the desert have been lost because they lived like people in the world. It is better to live in a crowd and want to live a solitary life than to live in solitude and be longing all the time for company.”

Society Solitude Asceticism Matrona

Book:The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection

Source: The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection

“I want to know you're there, but I want to be alone.”

Solitude Connection

Author:Virginia Woolf

“I do not know that I am happiest when alone; but this I am sure of, that I never am long in the society even of her I love (God knows too well, and the Devil probably too), without a yearning for the company of my lamp and my utterly confused and tumbled-over library.”

Solitude Libraries April 10 1814

Author:Lord Byron

“Sanki insanlar ile aramda iki durak arası bir boşluk vardı; inmem gereken duraktan hep iki durak önce indiğim için mi onların yanına varamıyordum yoksa onlar mı benimle aynı durakta ineceklerine beni inandırıp ben o durakta indiğim an cam kapının tekrar kapanmasını ve ben dışarıda bırakışlarını izliyorlardı bilmiyordum. İlgilenmiyordum.”

Solitude Yalnızlık

Book:Tünel

Source: Tünel

“By routinely spending more time immersing in your thoughts, you may begin to gain clarity over matters you were previously clueless about. This may lead you to become more efficient at work and smarter with resources, and you may even gain a deeper understanding of how you should move forward.”

Solitude Productivity Introspection

Book:The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“she experienced the melancholy luxury of solitary joy”

Solitude

Book:Devotion

Source: Devotion

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