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“It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have an idea, you become a minority of one.”

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“I felt lonely, and in full possession of my loneliness. It was the first time I had owned anything of value.”

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Book:What He's Poised to Do: Stories

Source: What He's Poised to Do: Stories

“What she did learn from all the books with something else, something she hadn't really been expecting, which was that the story of loneliness is much longer than the story of life. In the sense of what most people mean by living, she said. Without children or partner, without meaningful family or home, a day can an eternity: a life without those things is a life without a story, a life in which there is nothing - no narrative flights, no plot development, no immersive human dramas - to alleviate the cruelly meticulous passing of time. Just his work... and in the end she had the feeling that he done more of that than anyone had any use for.”

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Book:Transit

Source: Transit

“A GREENHEAD is what Mary called me—SWAT!”

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Book:Macom Farm

Source: Macom Farm

“You are built in the silent seasons of your life.”

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Author:Hiral Nagda

“I shunned the face of man; all sound of joy or complacency was torture to me; solitude was my only consolation—deep, dark, death-like solitude.”

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Book:Frankenstein 1818

Source: Frankenstein 1818

“I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.”

Author:Junot Díaz

“Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I am a loneliness savant.”

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Book:Poison for Breakfast

Source: Poison for Breakfast

“Though no one recognized his strength, Anand was among the strong. His satirical sense kept him aloof. At first this was only a pose, and imitation of his father. But satire led to contempt, and at Shorthills contempt, quick, deep, inclusive, became part of his nature. It led to inadequacies, to self-awareness and a lasting loneliness. But it made him unassailable.”

Loneliness Satire Contempt

Book:A House for Mr Biswas

Source: A House for Mr Biswas

“VLADIMIR: I missed you . . . and at the same time I was happy. Isn't that a strange thing? ESTRAGON: (shocked). Happy? VLADIMIR: Perhaps it's not quite the right word. ESTRAGON: And now? VLADIMIR: Now? . . . (Joyous.) There you are again . . . (Indifferent.) There we are again. . . (Gloomy.) There I am again.”

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Book:Waiting for Godot

Source: Waiting for Godot