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“There was no one to complain to in the woods, so I did not complain,' Knight said.”

Book:The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

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“Pues en cuanto consideramos la existencia de cada individuo como una habitación mayor o menor, queda de manifiesto que los más sólo llegan a conocer apenas un rincón de su aposento. Un sitio junto a la ventana. O bien alguna estrecha faja del entarimado, que van y vienen recorriendo de un lado para otro. Así disfrutan de alguna seguridad…”

Love Solitude Amor Tristeza Soledad

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“You know (to adopt the easy or conversational style) that you and I belong to a happy minority. We are the sons of the hunters and the wandering singers, and from our boyhood nothing ever gave us greater pleasure than to stand under lonely skies in forest clearings, or to find a beach looking westward at evening over unfrequented seas. But the great mass of men love companionship so much that nothing seems of any worth compared with it. Human communion is their meat and drink, and so they use the railways to make bigger and bigger hives for themselves.”

People Nature Solitude Tourism Countryside Railways

Book:On Nothing and Kindred Subjects

Source: On Nothing and Kindred Subjects

“Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way.”

Thinking Art Ideas Inspiration Psychology Walking Solitude Writing Inspiration Brainstorming Metaphors Video Games Long Walks Computer Games Art Inspiration Inspiration For Writing Writing Metaphors

Author:Joyce Rachelle

“I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant...I AM HAUNTED BY HUMANS.”

Death Books Words The Book Thief

Book:The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“It never ceased to amaze me, until suddenly one day I felt beautiful and holy for having had the courage to hold on to my sanity after all I'd seen and been through, body and soul, in too loud a solitude, and slowly I came to the realization that my work was hurtling me headlong into an infinite field of omnipotence.”

Solitude Sanity Omnipotence

Book:Too Loud a Solitude

Source: Too Loud a Solitude

“Być może prawdziwa wolność jest zawsze okupiona samotnością.”

Life Inspirational Sadness Solitude

Book:Wyspa Mgieł

Source: Wyspa Mgieł

“You are the richest person if you own the treasures of both the solitude and the togetherness!”

“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.”

Solitude Library Memory

Book:A Plea for Eros: Essays

Source: A Plea for Eros: Essays

“we used to talk all night and do things alone together and i’ve begun (as a reaction to a feeling) to balance the pleasure of loneliness against the pain of loving you”

Love Loneliness Solitude

Book:Love Poems

Source: Love Poems

“I begin to be impatient of solitude - to feel its draperies hang sweltering, unwholesome about me.”

Solitude Virginia Woolf The Waves

Book:The Waves

Source: The Waves

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